Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A republican form or system of government.
- noun Attachment to a republican form of government; republican principles: as, his republicanism was of the most advanced type.
- noun The principles or doctrine of the Republican party, specifically of the Republican party in the United States.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A republican form or system of government; the principles or theory of republican government.
- noun Attachment to, or political sympathy for, a republican form of government.
- noun U.S. The principles and policy of the Republican party, so called.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The advocacy of a
republic as a means ofgovernment
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the political orientation of those who hold that a republic is the best form of government
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Examples
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Even the term republicanism is a coarse and conventional description of that sentiment which dominated his whole being, and which is the inspiration at once of his poetry and of his prose.
Milton Mark Pattison 1848
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What President Adams meant by republicanism is the system of liberty under law.
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Apparently there have been a lot of insane political theorists, few of whom subscribed to the silly notion that a necessary condition of republicanism is that all free citizens have the right to vote.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Violent Misdemeanants, the Right to Bear Arms, and the Right to Vote 2010
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Apparently there have been a lot of insane political theorists, few of whom subscribed to the silly notion that a necessary condition of republicanism is that all free citizens have the right tovote.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Violent Misdemeanants, the Right to Bear Arms, and the Right to Vote 2010
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Dallas, once a bastion of republicanism, is now a SOLID democratic town and county.
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Different representations of manliness in these works demonstrate that the history of British and American republicanism is a history of efforts to manage ideas about manhood as well as race, class, nation, and commerce.
Love and Merit in the Maritime Historical Novel: Cooper and Scott 2006
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All that is comprehended under the terms republicanism and democracy were distasteful to him from the first, and as he grew older they became hateful and contemptible.
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"Yes," said Fleda, a little doubtfully, "where religion and not republicanism is the spring of it."
Queechy 1854
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All that is comprehended under the terms republicanism and democracy were distasteful to him from the first, and as he grew older they became hateful and contemptible.
Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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All that is comprehended under the terms republicanism and democracy were distasteful to him from the first, and as he grew older they became hateful and contemptible.
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855
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