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Putsch vs Putschist - What's the difference?

putsch | putschist |

As nouns the difference between putsch and putschist

is that putsch is a coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government while putschist is one who participates in a putsch.

putsch

English

Noun

(es)
  • A coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government.
    • Afterward, the ringleaders of the failed putsch were publicly executed.
  • * 2010 , Thompson, M. 2010. Modernisation theory’s last redoubt: democratisation in east and south east Asia. In Yin-wah Chu and Siu-lun Wong (ed), 'East Asia's new democracies: deepening, reversal, non-liberal alternatives'. London, Routledge.p98.
    • "They have broken the democratic rules of the game by supporting popular mobilisation that has resulted in what can be dubbed a "people power putsch "."

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "putsch")

    Synonyms

    * coup * , coup d'etat

    putschist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who participates in a putsch.
  • *1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 150:
  • *:The Forum itself would always, henceforth, wield a strange kind of mesmeric fascination upon the mob demagogue or would-be putschist .