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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Opposed to citizenship.
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- adjective In opposition to
citizenship . - adjective Against the
welfare and best interests ofcitizens and their citizenship.
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Examples
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Fleury, in the strange jargon of the day, as "_the fosterer of a swarm of bad citizens, who were nourished in the anticivic prejudices_ de l'ancien régime, _and fostered in the most detestable superstitions, in defiance of the law_."
Tales and Novels — Volume 06 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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a member of the Committee of Public Safety, denounced Madame de Fleury, in the strange jargon of the day, as "_the fosterer of a swarm of bad citizens, who were nourished in the anticivic prejudices_ de l'ancien regime, _and fostered in the most detestable superstitions, in defiance of the law_."
Murad the Unlucky and Other Tales Maria Edgeworth 1808
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