Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bloodthirsty revolutionist or terrorist.
- noun One of the mob that massacred the imprisoned royalists in Paris, France, in September 1792.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of those who, in the first French Revolution, took part in the massacre of the prisoners in Paris in the beginning of September, 1792; hence, any malignant or bloodthirsty person.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An agent in the massacres in Paris, committed in patriotic frenzy, on the 22d of September, 1792.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
agent in themassacres inParis , committed inpatriotic frenzy , on 22September 1792.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is a measure of how much has changed that Amin al-Hindi, believed to be a former Black Septembrist, was an adviser to the Palestinian delegation in peace talks with Israel.
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How, asked they, could any one employ a man whose father had been a Septembrist, a Bonapartist, and a drunkard to boot?
Two Poets 2007
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How, asked they, could any one employ a man whose father had been a Septembrist, a Bonapartist, and a drunkard to boot?
Two Poets 2007
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Already the Regeneradores, representing the Chartist-Septembrist coalition (p. 632) of 1852, had disintegrated, and in 1877 the more radical elements of the defunct party, known at first as the Historic Left, were reorganized under the name of the Progressistas, or Progressives.
The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914
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At first, he hoped that this Buonapartist, this Jacobin, this terrorist, this Septembrist, would return.
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At first, he hoped that this Buonapartist, this Jacobin, this terrorist, this Septembrist, would return.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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How, asked they, could any one employ a man whose father had been a Septembrist, a
Lost Illusions Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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How, asked they, could any one employ a man whose father had been a Septembrist, a
Two Poets Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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In 1836 the Septembrists stimulated a popular rising in consequence of which the constitution of 1822 was declared again in effect until a new one should have been devised, and, April 4, 1838, there was brought forward under Septembrist auspices an instrument in which it was provided that an elected senate should take the place of the aristocratic House of Peers for which the Charter provided, and that elections to the House of Deputies should thenceforth be direct.
The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914
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