Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
dynamiter .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A political dynamiter. [A form found in some newspapers.]
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- noun archaic A
political dynamiter .
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Examples
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But then he is responding to the appeals of a clamant and not over-particular stomach, while your dynamitard is occasionally a well-fed barbarian with a queasy palate.
Tropic Days 2003
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THE CRIER: (LOUDLY) Whereas Leopold Bloom of no fixed abode is a wellknown dynamitard, forger, bigamist, bawd and cuckold and a public nuisance to the citizens of Dublin and whereas at this commission of assizes the most honourable ...
Ulysses 2003
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Émile Henry was representative of the theoretical dynamitard; Matthieu, like Ravachol, of the dynamitard by passion.
A Girl Among the Anarchists Isabel Meredith
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Émile Henry, the dynamitard of the Café Terminus, belonged to the number of what I may call the theoretical dynamitard.
A Girl Among the Anarchists Isabel Meredith
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We walked boldly past Limpet, and were soon at Shoolbred's, where I left the dynamitard with Bonafede, and, taking a roundabout walk, returned within half-an-hour to Grafton Street.
A Girl Among the Anarchists Isabel Meredith
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As she was leaving, Bonafede came down and said that Matthieu would like to see me if I saw fit, and together we mounted to the back attic where the dynamitard was concealed.
A Girl Among the Anarchists Isabel Meredith
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With the pompous symbolism of the grand-mannerist, or the smart symbolism of the caricaturist, or the half-baked symbolism of the pseudo-philosophical-futuro-dynamitard he has no truck whatever.
Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922
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Mr. Lowell sacrificed the interests of their dynamitard friends to a brutal British government; but, as the Washington officials took no notice, nobody here paid much attention to the matter.
Stories of Authors, British and American Edwin Watts Chubb 1912
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THE CRIER: _ (Loudly) _ Whereas Leopold Bloom of no fixed abode is a wellknown dynamitard, forger, bigamist, bawd and cuckold and a public nuisance to the citizens of Dublin and whereas at this commission of assizes the most honourable ...
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Are we then to repudiate Fabian methods, and return to those of the barricader, or adopt those of the dynamitard and the assassin?
brtom commented on the word dynamitard
"Whereas Leopold Bloom of no fixed abode is a well-known dynamitard, forger, bigamist, bawd and cuckold and a public nuisance to the citizens of Dublin ..."
Joyce, Ulysses, 15
February 8, 2007
qms commented on the word dynamitard
"Mad bomber" he thought a bit hard.
His name had been shamefully tarred,
But French will go far
To melt away tar:
He's pleased to claim "dynamitard."
March 1, 2015