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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ideologue
noun
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▪ Although known as a technocrat rather than an ideologue, Yeutter's conservative credentials were impeccable.
▪ Despite, or perhaps because of, these successes Channel Four is also under scrutiny from the ideologues and reformers.
▪ Finally, we are not ideologues.
▪ He was perilously close to losing control over House Republicans, especially the newly-elected class of 73 right-wing ideologues.
▪ In practice the administrative shift away from environmentalism was much less dramatic than ideologues like Newman were insisting.
▪ It also had its own ideologues.
▪ More rigorous ideologues of the left boycotted what they dubbed an illegal election.
▪ Unlike many of his dancers, Horton was a romantic rather than an ideologue.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ideologue

ideologue \ideologue\ n. an adherent to or advocate of some ideology[3].

Syn: ideologist.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ideologue

1815, in reference to the French Revolutionaries, from French ideologue, from Greek idea (see idea) + -logos (see -logue). Earlier form was ideologist (1798).

Wiktionary
ideologue

n. A person advocate some ideology, especially as an official or the most eminent advocate.

WordNet
ideologue

n. an advocate of some ideology [syn: ideologist]

Usage examples of "ideologue".

They have been made more ridiculous than even I expected by this application, a correct one, of the term ideologue to them.

I remain the convinced ideologue, and critical of the bourgeois frame of mind.

Retired general Mazaki Jinzaburo, a former inspector general of military education and a leading ideologue in the Imperial Way faction, likewise cooperated enthusiastically.

A fitting beginning, it was generally thought, for the man who held the position of chief ideologue was as popular in Moscow as the plague, but the Politburo had to have him or one like him.

Monsieur is Grand Electeur, that a new and serious philosophy is rising in my university, which may do us great honour and disembarrass us completely of the ideologues, slaying them on the spot by reasoning?

BOOKMARKS: Ability in making it be supposed that he really possessed talent Absurdity of interfering with trifles Admired him more for what he had the fortitude not to do Animated by an unlucky zeal Ideologues Put some gold lace on the coats of my virtuous republicans Trifles honoured with too much attention Were made friends of lest they should become enemies Would enact the more in proportion as we yield End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Memoirs of Napoleon--1803, v6 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, VOLUME 7.

This President was starting from scratch on most issues and relying on ideologues like Larry Lindsey, Karl Rove, and, he now feared, his old friend Dick.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the great ideologues of geopolitics and the theoreticians of the end of history have consistently posed fundamentalisms as the primary danger facing global order and stability.

Serious publishing flourished, promoting liberal and left-wing ideas as well as a broad range of translated works that left the old ideologues sputtering and gnashing their teeth.

The scorn for discredited ideologues and military leaders apparent in these new applications of old sayings was typical.

Until the surrender, the state and its ideologues had dictated that the primary love a human should feel was patriotism or love of country, ultimately expressed through devotion to the emperor.

Shinto high priest had indicated, and as twentieth-century ideologues had reiterated ad nauseam.

When all was said and done, it was obvious that only a small number of high army and navy officers, few high bureaucrats, no captains of the war economy, and vir-tually none of the civilian ideologues in politics, academe, and the media who helped prime the pump of racial arrogance and fanatical militarism paid for the terrible crimes that men on the front committed.

Lafayette into closer contact with the so-called Ideologues, who supported and extended Enlightenment epistemology by advocating a rationalist, sensationalist theory of knowledge.

Lafayette and for the Ideologues created the context in which Lafayette began to establish his new role as an intellectual mediator.