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  • noun The principles of the supporters of the House of Bourbon; obstinate conservatism.

Etymologies

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Bourbon +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • As to the "utter irreconcilables" on both sides, (for be it remembered that "Bourbonism" is not exclusively a Southern product,) the wiser and better people must do God's work of to-day and to-morrow without their help, and, if it come to that, in spite of their opposition.

    Our Brother in Black: His Freedom and His Future Atticus Greene 1881

  • When the grandson of John C. Calhoun can make such admissions, creditable alike to his head and his heart, may not the great-grandson of Wade Hampton rise up to chase the Bourbonism of his great-grandfather into the tomb of disgruntlement?

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • When the grandson of John C. Calhoun can make such admissions, creditable alike to his head and his heart, may not the great-grandson of Wade Hampton rise up to chase the Bourbonism of his great-grandfather into the tomb of disgruntlement?

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • When the grandson of John C. Calhoun can make such admissions, creditable alike to his head and his heart, may not the great-grandson of Wade Hampton rise up to chase the Bourbonism of his great-grandfather into the tomb of disgruntlement?

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • When the grandson of John C. Calhoun can make such admissions, creditable alike to his head and his heart, may not the great-grandson of Wade Hampton rise up to chase the Bourbonism of his great-grandfather into the tomb of disgruntlement?

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • When the grandson of John C. Calhoun can make such admissions, creditable alike to his head and his heart, may not the great-grandson of Wade Hampton rise up to chase the Bourbonism of his great-grandfather into the tomb of disgruntlement?

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • But if upon the innocent violet is to be heaped the curse of Sedan, then when Bourbonism lifts its abashed head are lilies to be proscribed in the Lyons market as violets were darkly suspected in Marseilles?

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various

  • Third Republic perish to-morrow, a new christening of streets would have to be made; but the event only would determine whether the new names should celebrate Imperialism, or Communism, or Bourbonism, or

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

  • Now Roosevelt had been, of course, the negation of Bourbonism.

    Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography Thayer, William R 1919

  • In politics when this process of petrifaction is reached, we call it Bourbonism, and the sure sign of the Bourbon is that, being unconscious that he is the victim of sclerosis, he sees no reason for seeking a cure.

    Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography Thayer, William R 1919

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