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Napoleonist
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English
Alternative forms
en Napoléonist
Etymology
From en Napoleon ist.
Noun
A supporter of the dynasty of the Napoleons.
Adjective
Supporting, relating to, or characteristic of, the dynasty of the Napoleons.
en The History of England 1859 774 2 The party of the president (the Buonapartists) gradually and steadily gained over all the others; the soldiery and the peasantry were Napoleonist; the church saw this, and threw its weight into the presidential scale.
en w:Theodore Tilton Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sanctum Sanctorum; or, Proof-Sheets from an Editor’s Table New York, N.Y. Sheldon & Company 1870 34 Mr. F ⸺ hints that your people are not very Napoleonist.
en End of the Carlist War The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art XLI 1,062 London:Published at the Office, Southampton Street, Strand 4 March 1876 286 1 The Spanish legend of a golden age of absolute royalty was even more baseless than the Jacobinical or the Napoleonist legend of France.
en A. R. Allinson Intimate Memoirs of Napoleon III: Personal Reminiscences of the Man and the Emperor London Stanley Paul & Co. 1912 Baron d’Ambès 158 Hugo is very Napoleonist, as is generally understood.
en Oscar Ludmann Stepchild of the Rhine: An Autobiography New York, N.Y. Alfred H. King, Inc. 1931 79 Only a week ago I was court-martialed for having attacked my officer and school teacher, and my grandfather is Napoleonist.
en w:Aidan Nichols The Realm: An Unfashionable Essay on the Conversion of England Oxford Family Publications 2008 95 978-1-871217-74-2 Fascism was Napoleonist.
Related terms
en Napoleonistic
en Napoleonist syndrome
Anagrams
en aeilnnoopst isopentanol
en eponyms