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- noun Plural form of
annexationist .
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Examples
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In a country so full of desperadoes and fanatical haters of anything English, it was more than possible than though such an act would have been condemned by the general sense of the country, a number of men could easily be found who would think they were doing a righteous act in greeting the "annexationists" with an ovation of bullets.
Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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When the first war of cessation from Spain in 1868 began, the Ten Year's War, there were still many annexationists who looked merely to change masters.
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"" We think they are traitors to our people, annexationists, '' said Homero Saker, a Foreign Ministry official.
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He and Gladstone suspected that a Suakin-Berber railway might become a bridgehead, from which the annexationists at the War Office would expand their African empire.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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He and Gladstone suspected that a Suakin-Berber railway might become a bridgehead, from which the annexationists at the War Office would expand their African empire.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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He and Gladstone suspected that a Suakin-Berber railway might become a bridgehead, from which the annexationists at the War Office would expand their African empire.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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They had taken total control, with the support of the annexationists or neo-annexationists, the autonomists, and those who fought against Cuba's independence.
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This generation has also seen today's annexationists, the [words indistinct] of all times, the volunteers of yesterday -- not in the guerilla sense of the word, but as it was used in the past, volunteers of yesterday, guerrillas of yesterday.
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And there was only a single party of revolutionaries; and those who were not in the party of the revolutionaries were in the parties of the Spanish colonialists, the party of the annexationists, and the party of the autonomists.
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Despite the obvious good-heartedness of those who inveigh against the Hawaiian annexationists as against the apostles of Anglo-Saxonism, their own usage seems curiously racist.
Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967
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