Crossword clues for anarchist
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anarchist \An"arch*ist\, n. [Cf. F. anarchiste.] An anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s; see anarchy + -ist. The word got a boost into modernity from the French Revolution.
Wiktionary
a. (context somewhat rare English) Relating to anarchism or to #Noun. n. 1 One who believes in or advocates the absence of hierarchy and authority in most forms (compare anarchism), ''especially'' one who works toward the realization of such. 2 One who disregards laws and social norms as a form of rebellion against authority. 3 (''By extension from previous sense''), one who promotes chaos and lawlessness; a nihilist. 4 One who resents outside control or influence on his or her life, in particular a government, and therefore desires the absence of political control.
WordNet
n. an advocate of anarchism [syn: nihilist, syndicalist]
Wikipedia
- Redirect List of Marvel Comics characters: A#Anarchist
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Usage examples of "anarchist".
The two most prominent representatives of the Anarchist idea in America, Voltairine de Cleyre and Emma Goldman--the one a native American, the other a Russian--have been converted, like numerous others, to the ideas of Anarchism by the judicial murder.
In England, because of his extreme Anarchist views, Most broke with Marx and, after serving eighteen months at hard labor for advocating regicide, he emigrated in 1882 to the United States.
The author of Anarchist Cookbook does not see in the individualistic acts of terror he describes the ultimate ratio.
Thoreau is considered the American Anarchist par excellence, and, if we can believe Vernon Louis Parrington, all of the Adams family--from the two presidents to the brothers--wished nothing more than the burning of State Street, the site of Boston banking.
Significantly, it is Chien, the Anarchist, with whom this novel starts.
They grow beards and long hair, and, since they have one of the best available sources of dope and any kind of weapons, they easily become influential within Anarchist circles.
We still do not know if Goering or the demented Dutch Anarchist Van der Lubbe set fire to the Reichstag, which triggered the Nazi terror.
Such restrictions hurt only the law abider, since the criminal or Anarchist can easily produce false identification papers.
The Anarchist Cookbook is not a revolutionary work in itself, just as a gun cannot shoot, but I have a sincere hope that it may stir some stagnant brain cells into action.
This is a truly unique age, where the individual has become the supreme agent of anarchist theory, without his even being aware of it.
An anarchist is not necessarily a revolutionary, although it is more common than not that a person who has attempted to rid himself of exterior controls, for the purpose of developing his own philosophy, will find himself oppressed.
If I could come out in this book and advocate complete revolution and the violent overthrow of the United States of America, without being thrown in jail, I would not have written The Anarchist Cookbook, and there would be no need for it.
How can an anarchist who has a right-wing background understand or relate to a left-wing anarchist, who uses Marxist terminology?
Their deaths were the gestures of desperate or deluded men to call attention to the Anarchist idea.
The Anarchist task was to awaken them to the Idea by propaganda of the word and of the Deed, and one day, one such deed would flash the signal for revolt.