Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A friend of the people.

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Examples

  • Republican Rome was indeed a country aristocratically governed which had, however, a democratic element in its constitution, and this democratic element, up to the time of the civil wars, was itself profoundly aristocratic, just as the aristocracy which was always open to an accession of members from the plebs was profoundly "demophil."

    The Cult of Incompetence ��mile Faguet 1881

  • If M. Faguet had chosen to refer to England, he might, perhaps, have cited the constitution of this country, as it existed some seventy years ago, as an example of a "demophil aristocracy," raised to power by an

    The Cult of Incompetence ��mile Faguet 1881

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