Jeffersonian

 [jef-er-soh-nee-uhn]  

Jef·fer·so·ni·an

   [jef-er-soh-nee-uhn]
adjective
1.
pertaining to or advocating the political principles and doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, especially those stressing minimum control by the central government, the inalienable rights of the individual, and the superiority of an agrarian economy and rural society.
noun
2.
a supporter of Thomas Jefferson or Jeffersonianism.

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Jeffersonian has a plethora of syllables.
So is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Does it mean:
opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England.
(used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English.)
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Origin:
1790–1800, Americanism; Jefferson + -ian

Related forms
Jef·fer·so·ni·an·ism, noun
pro-Jef·fer·so·ni·an, adjective
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Jefferson (ˈdʒɛfəsən)
 
—n
Thomas. 1743--1826, US statesman: secretary of state (1790--93); third president (1801--09). He was the chief drafter of the Declaration of Independence (1776), the chief opponent of the centralizing policies of the Federalists under Hamilton, and effected the Louisiana Purchase (1803)
 
Jeffersonian
 
—adj, —n

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