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Republican vs Unrepublican - What's the difference?

republican | unrepublican |

As adjectives the difference between republican and unrepublican

is that republican is advocating or supporting a republic as a form of government while unrepublican is not republican; contrary to the spirit of a republic.

As a noun republican

is someone who favors a republic as a form of government.

republican

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Advocating or supporting a republic as a form of government.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 222:
    • 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 ).
  • Of or belonging to a republic.
  • * Macaulay
    • The Roman emperors were republican magistrates named by the senate.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who favors a republic as a form of government.
  • * 1791 , James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson :
    • 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...'
  • A bird of a kind that builds many nests together: the American cliff swallow, or the South African weaver bird.

    • See also

    * anti-monarchist (1) * antiroyalist (1) * egalitarian (2) * antifascist (4) * rational (5)

    unrepublican

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not republican; contrary to the spirit of a republic
  • *{{quote-book, year=1867, author=, title=Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader, chapter=Prophetic Voices About America, edition= citation
    • , passage=It is easy to see that empire obtained by force is unrepublican and offensive to that first principle of our Union according to which all just government stands only on the consent of the governed. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1890, author=John Fiske, title=Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Besides, it was something that had been unpopular in ancient Greece and Rome, and it was thought to be essentially unrepublican in principle. }}

    Synonyms

    *undemocratic