Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Destructive; subversive.
Wiktionary
- adj. Promoting destruction.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Promoting destruction.
Etymologies
- subversion + -ary (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Yet the subversionary writers were not left to occupy the field alone.”
“I have considered this famous pamphlet at some length, because it was eminently timely, expressing, as it did, the doctrines and the aspirations of the subversionary party in France.”
“As to the form of that government they were not entirely agreed; although they were not quite so subversionary as many of the pamphleteers wished them to be, or as their subsequent history would lead us to believe them to have been.”
““We shall have,” said the judge, “these crude and subversionary books from time to time until it is recognised as an axiom of morality that luck is the only fit object of human veneration.”
“We shall have," said the judge, "these crude and subversionary books from time to time until it is recognized as an axiom of morality that luck is the only fit object of human veneration.”
“We shall have," said the judge, "these crude and subversionary books from time to time until it is recognised as an axiom of morality that luck is the only fit object of human veneration.”
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