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democrat
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Word definitions for democrat in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1790, "adherent of democracy," with reference to France, from French démocrate (18c., opposed to aristocrate ), back-formation from démocratie (see democracy ); revived in U.S. as a political party affiliation 1798, with a capital D . As a shortening of ...
Usage examples of democrat.
He aimed it not at Greeley, who wanted slavery to end, but at antiwar Democrats, antiblack Irish Americans, governors of the border states, and the many Republicans who opposed emancipating the slaves.
Ripon, Wisconsin, in February 1854, a diverse coalition of antislavery politicians, former members of the Whig, Free-Soil, and Know-Nothing parties along with disaffected northern Democrats, organized a new party opposed to the further extension of slavery.
These democrats of Appenzell have not yet made the American discovery that pulpits are profaned by any utterance of national sentiment, or any application of Christian doctrine to politics.
Devereaux regarded the new DCI as a politically correct nincompoop appointed by the Arkansan President whom, although a fellow Democrat, he despised, and that was before Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky.
Democrats used force and fraud to wrest control from biracial Republican coalitions.
Redneck Baptists, rich liberals, yellow dog Democrats, middle-class blacks, young fire eaters, Uncle Toms, and bone-dumb bluegums working the bottomland north of town.
Reagan and the two Bushes were and are not only great political leaders but also paragons of truth and morality, and that Bill Clinton and the Democrats are exemplars of debauchery and deceit, let us agree that neither of these extreme sentiments are quite accurate.
Now, Capers: The Democrats are going to try to highlight what Capers did to his friends in college.
Social Democrats in that period sank into conciliationism, proceeding from the most varied motives.
My wife and I did invest money with his firm, in a blind trust, as have several Supreme Court justices as well as many Congresspeople, both Democrats and Republicans.
Democrats spend years dillydallying with lunatic despots who threaten America, eventually a Republican president comes in and threatens aggressive military action.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution, lest Hanoi had been misled by the interpretation Senator Fulbright had given to his fellow Democrats.
Similarly his colleague and friend Etienne Claviere had been prominent among the Genevan democrats whose uprising against the patricians of that republic had been suppressed by Vergennes in 1782.
Social Democrats, who were mostly well-meaning trade-unionists with the same habit of bowing to old, established authority which was ingrained in Germans of other classes, could not bring themselves to do.
In Wisconsin, for example, there was little difference between Democrats and Greenbackers on the currency question, and even the Republicans in their platform leaned toward inflation, although the candidates declared against it.