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n. (plural of westerner English)

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Westerners (Korean political faction)

The Westerners ( Hangul: 서인, Korean: Seoin, literally West Person, Hanja:西人) was a political faction that dominated Korea in the 17th century. In 1567, the Sarim split into the Easterners and Westerners. The Westerners remained the main contender of the Easterners in the Seonjo age, with Yi I as one of the most influential Westerners.

The Westerners lost power in the later years of the Seonjo age, and the Easterners and the factions that split from the Easterners had power throughout the last decade of the Seonjo age and the entirety of the Gwanghaegun age. However, the Westerners ousted Gwanghaegun from power in 1623, making Prince Neungyang king and causing the Westerners to regain power, which they had lost for a generation.

The Westerners had power for half a century, from 1623 to 1674, in which they were relatively unified. The era also led to the appearance of powerful Westerner politicians such as Song Si-yeol, Song Jun-gil, and Kim Su-hang, of which Song Si-yeol was the most influential. the Yesong debate of the Hyeonjong era finally toppled the Westerner government, and a Southerner government ruled for six years, until 1680.

The Westerners regained power in 1680 with the Gyeongsin Hwanguk. However, there was a dispute between the younger Westerners and the older Westerners in 1682 on whether Kim Ik-hun, one of the figures who had brought down the Southerners in 1680, should be punished. The younger Westerners thought that Kim should be punished, while the older Westerners did not. When Song Si-yeol took the side of the older Westerners in 1683, the younger Westerners were infuriated at Song. Those who wanted Kim to be punished became known as the Soron (young learning), while those who continued to follow Song became the Noron (old learning). With the Hoeni Dispute in 1684 between the Noron scholar Song Si-yeol and the Soron scholar Yun Jeung, the Westerners were divided forever.

Usage examples of "westerners".

Even the people of the Atlantic States were accused by westerners as late as 1786 of threatening secession and of being as ignorant of the transAlleghany country as Great Britain had been of America, and as inconsiderate.

For the next few years, Absalom continued his missionary work, but Pearl now realized that her family and all Westerners were regarded as unwelcome outsiders.

The ten black-garbed Tuigan soldiers split into two groups after the westerners had arrayed themselves.

The five black-garbed Tuigan still guarding the westerners had drawn their weapons, too.

The disparity between the number coming in from the Army of the Potomac and Western armies was so great, that we Westerners began to take some advantage of it.

Wall, do ye know I alluz liked the Westerners a heap sight better than them blue-bellied New England Yankees.

It got him tons of publicity, reinforced his caveman image, and made him wildly popular among farmers, westerners, and anyone else who made money from animals.

The violence was centered mainly north and west of Chinkiang, but Westerners along much of the coast and inland also were molested and killed.

At Kuling, a summer retreat for Westerners in the mountains south of Nanking, she met John Lossing Buck, a Cornell graduate and an expert in agricultural economics.

Its fundamentalism at once renders suspect several brilliant and subtle generalizations on the differences between Easterners and Westerners noted by a well-known European philosopher after a visit to China.

Travel Tours into Primitive World, wealthy gangs of disoriented Westerners run up and down the river for a quick sampling of archaic man.

Amanda wondered what folks in these parts did to amuse themselves in the days before dumb Westerners started volunteering to serve as stand-in clowns, fools, and jesters.