Republican vs Republicanize - What's the difference?
republican | republicanize |
Advocating or supporting a republic as a form of government.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 222:
Of or belonging to a republic.
* Macaulay
Someone who favors a republic as a form of government.
* 1791 , James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson :
A bird of a kind that builds many nests together: the American cliff swallow, or the South African weaver bird.
To convert (a state etc.) to republican principles.
* 1809 , David Ramsay, The History of South-Carolina
As an adjective republican
is (us politics) of or pertaining to the republican party of the united states.As a noun republican
is (british|ireland) an irish nationalist; a proponent of a united ireland.As a verb republicanize is
to convert (a state etc) to republican principles.republican
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Republican ideology had no obvious institutional focus and ideological carrier as was the case with the discourse of reason (the monarchy) and the discourse of law (the parlements ).
- The Roman emperors were republican magistrates named by the senate.
Noun
(en noun)- Sir, there is one Mrs Macaulay in this town, a great republican . One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, 'Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing...'
See also
* anti-monarchist (1) * antiroyalist (1) * egalitarian (2) * antifascist (4) * rational (5)republicanize
English
Verb
(republicaniz)- France was republicanized .
- To republicanize the rising generation, the convention of the people of South-Carolina made it the duty of the constituted authorities to do away this accompaniment of royalty as far as was compatible with liberty.