Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The system or principles of monarchy.
- noun Belief in or advocacy of monarchy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The principles of monarchy; love of or preference for monarchy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The principles of, or preference for, monarchy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Rule by a
monarchy - noun The advocacy of such a
political system
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a belief in and advocacy of monarchy as a political system
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Examples
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Capitalism-a synonym for "monarchism"-is based on greed, it's predatory and even Godless like its own offspring Communism.
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When Congress met in December, 1793, the old questions of Hamilton's measures and the "monarchism" of the administration were forgotten in the new crisis.
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Croly and Bourne, the founding fathers of modern liberalism, hoped to create a re-founded regime that had broken from the "monarchism" of totemizing the Constitution.
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In Bismarck's 19th century mix of monarchism, nationalism and paternalism, the first two led to his historical label as a conservative.
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But his disillusion at the conditions in Russia and his disgust with the rise of fascism in Germany fueled a belief in monarchism as the only viable alternative for Europe.
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Tories advocate monarchism, are usually of a High Church Anglican or Recusant Catholic religious heritage and opposed to the radical liberalism of the Whig faction.
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“Year of our Lord” in early American political discourse was not so much an acceptence of a religious creed as it was a rejection of monarchism.
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Why bring monarchism, or non-elected heads of state into the equation?
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
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The focus of Claude's writing is on Tolkien's monarchism and why it is not controversial.
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I think he did a bad job, though he did face a moronic Severn barrage, he did actually fail to point out the major distinction between unionism and monarchism, not once but 4 times, and thereby allowed the interview to slip away from its subject.
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