Definitions

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  • noun politics A supporter or follower of François-Noël Babeuf or his ideas, including universal equal income and the abolition of private property.

Etymologies

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From French Babouviste, corresponding to Babeuf +‎ -ist.

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Examples

  • Sainte – Marguerite and shouted: “I am a Babouvist!”

    Les Miserables 2008

  • On the 4th of April, 1832, a passer-by mounted the post on the corner which forms the angle of the Rue Sainte-Marguerite and shouted: "I am a Babouvist!"

    Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis 1862

  • Rue Sainte-Marguerite and shouted: "I am a Babouvist!"

    Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843

  • Babeuf and his comrades had been long forgotten, and this massive work now told the first and most thoroughgoing narrative of the Babouvist saga.

    LewRockwell.com 2009

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