Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The opinions and principles of the sansculottes in any sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Extreme republican principles; the principles or practice of the
sans-culottes .
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- noun Extreme
republican principles ; the principles or practice of thesans-culottes .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And this, mind you, is the record of a city famed far more for monuments, pleasure-grounds, and beautiful women, than for lawlessness and sans-culottism, a city proud of its families and its culture, a city one of the oldest and richest in the land.
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Then as to the term "woman," this nomenclature has been much affected by the universal _sans-culottism_ of the French Revolution, when the queen was called _citoyenne_.
Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
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We wish to know if a cultural, a literary sans-culottism is possible, except with chaos as a goal.
Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Henry Seidel Canby 1919
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The horse business was certainly in the best vein of sans-culottism.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series Rafael Sabatini 1912
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This Marat Company, the police of the Revolutionary Committee, enrolled from the scourings of Nantes 'sans-culottism, and captained by a ruffian named Fleury, had been called into being by Carrier himself with the assistance of Goullin.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series Rafael Sabatini 1912
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She softened the suspicions of the radical Republicans by her affectation of sans-culottism and her familiarity with the members of the Girondin and Terrorist governments.
The Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte Tarbell, Ida 1899
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{266} The following passage from Desmoulins shows the unfortunate journalist at his best, when, backed by Danton, in December 1793, he raised the standard of mercy against terrorism and the infamous sans-culottism of Hébert.
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If you adopt this truth in its false, perverted form, then, at certain times, this will produce the most terrible devastation, as was the case in the period of _sans-culottism.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle Kuno Francke 1892
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Robespierre assailed the cosmopolitan for being a German baron, for having four thousand pounds a year, and for striking his sans-culottism some notes higher than the regular pitch.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre John Morley 1880
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In close proximity to these cheap plates, dedicated to the Phrygian cap and sans-culottism, are the very choicest specimens of Nevers faïence of priceless value.
East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877
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