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doctrinaires

n. (plural of doctrinaire English)

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The Doctrinals was the name given during the Bourbon Restoration (1814–1830) to the group of French Royalists who hoped to reconcile the Monarchy with the Revolution, and power with liberty. Headed by Royer-Collard, these liberal royalists were in favor of a constitutional monarchy but with a heavily restricted census suffrage — Louis XVIII, who had been restored to the throne, had granted a Charter to the French with a Chamber of Peers and a Chamber of deputies elected under tight electoral laws (only around 100,000 Frenchmen had at the time the right to vote).

Usage examples of "doctrinaires".

As early as 1818, doctrinaires began to bud out in them, a troublesome species.

Just where the ultras were proudest, the doctrinaires were a little ashamed.

Not only is "highbrow" almost as much a word of abuse in the Daily Worker as in Punch, but it is exactly those writers whose work shows both originality and the power to endure that Marxist doctrinaires single out for attack.

Their fathers in the flesh had been, either royalists, doctrinaires, it matters not what.