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Imperialist

Imperialist \Im*pe"ri*al*ist\, n. [Cf. F. imp['e]rialiste.] One who serves an emperor; one who favors imperialism.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
imperialist

c.1600, "an adherent of an emperor," such as the emperor of Germany, France, China, etc., probably modeled on French impérialiste (early 16c.); from imperial + -ist. The shift in meaning to "advocate of imperialism" (1893) came via the British Empire, which involved a worldwide colonial system. See imperialism. As a term of abuse in communist circles, attested by 1918. As an adjective by 1816.

Wiktionary
imperialist

a. of, or relating to imperialism n. An advocate of imperialism.

WordNet
imperialist

adj. of or relating to imperialism; "imperialistic wars" [syn: imperialistic]

imperialist

n. a believer in imperialism

Usage examples of "imperialist".

Lemurians have a fanatical hatred for the Atlantian newts and see them as imperialists, western devils, and corruptors of the ancient purity of newtdom.

He suspected Katharine of being Imperialist, as she suspected him of being Francophile and he resented the fact that now, on the very eve of the meeting between Henry and Francis, from which he hoped so much, he was being kept in ignorance of what was being said behind the closed doors.

Eurocentric, racist, imperialist, hegemonistic, queer-ball, degrading eco-exploitation.

In the meantime general Heusler, who commanded the imperialists at Transylvania, reduced the fortresses of Jeno and Villaguswar.

The revolting masses, their desire for liberation, their experiments to construct alternatives, and their instances of constituent power have all at their best moments pointed toward the internationalization and globalization of relationships, beyond the divisions of national, colonial, and imperialist rule.

Zameen of Rijk and her cyborg counterpart the Goddess of Victory joined forces, like twin Ranis of Jhansi rising up against imperialist oppression, or like Little Brain in a new, double-trouble incarnation, leading her promised revolution.

August campfire, he and Majid had talked to bin Laden and Zawahiri about the global struggle against imperialists and crusaders, of how they are all guided by the will of Allah, how the coming months would be days of great change and excitement.

A first, neocolonial phase involved the continuity of the old hierarchical imperialist procedures and the maintenance ifnot deepening of the mechanisms of unequal exchange between subordinated regions and dominant nationstates.

The latter ceased to exist during the first days of August, 1914, when the representatives of the majority of nearly all the Socialist parties passed over into the ranks of their imperialist governments.

Imperialist policy of the official parties, which could not, at that time, admit the appearance of an attempt to restore the International, fearing, as they did, that this might tend to weaken the war policy of the government and the working class working in unison.

Imperialist Socialist parties undertook to change the conditions of representation of the national sections in the old International.

We will proceed all the way to our socialist brothers in Cuba, and we will be the first ship to make use of a new and supersecret nuclear submarine base that we have been building for two years right under their imperialist noses on the south coast of Cuba.

One was the military and imperialist middle class, generally nicknamed the Blimps, and the other the left-wing intelligentsia.

For years past the most intelligent imperialists have been in favour of compromising with the Fascists, even if they had to give away a good deal in order to do so, because they have seen that only thus could imperialism be salvaged.

The imperialists wanted room for the free activity of civil society, the church wanted to establish in that society the supremacy of the moral order, or the law of God, without which governments can have no stability, and society no real well-being.