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anarchist
[ an-er-kist ]
noun
- a person who seeks to overturn by violence all constituted forms and institutions of society and government, with no purpose of establishing any other system of order in the place of that destroyed.
- a person who promotes disorder or excites revolt against any established rule, law, or custom.
anarchist
/ ˈænəkɪst /
noun
- a person who advocates the abolition of government and a social system based on voluntary cooperation
- a person who causes disorder or upheaval
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Derived Forms
- ˌanarˈchistic, adjective
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Other Words From
- anar·chistic adjective
- nonan·ar·chistic adjective
- pseudo·anar·chistic adjective
- semi·anar·chist noun
- semi·anar·chistic adjective
- unan·ar·chistic adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of anarchist1
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Example Sentences
The group seems to blend “black bloc” anarchist street violence with social-media campaigns.
This is an inverse Pietà, and something of a sexual anarchist; she ardently refuses to be oriented in an orientation.
Police sources informed Reforma that both action are considered “high risk” and ripe for “anarchist infiltration.”
But the bands that I was initially attracted to in punk rock were anarchist punk bands.
The senator from Texas and the anarchist busker from New York City have a lot more in common than you might expect.
So congress has excluded not only diseased, criminal, pauper and anarchist immigrants, but also contract and Chinese laborers.
This first act of voluntary Anarchist sacrifice will make the workingmen think deeply.
Such a development of affairs would have greatly advanced the Anarchist propaganda.
In the first place, I am an Anarchist: I do not believe in man-made law, designed to enslave and oppress humanity.
Strikes and labour riots now and then break out, and the Spanish anarchist is not unknown.
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