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Bonapartist

[ boh-nuh-pahr-tist ]

noun

  1. an adherent of the Bonapartes or their policies.


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Other Words From

  • Bona·partism noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Bonapartist1

1805–15; earlier Buonapartist. See Bonaparte, -ist

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Example Sentences

The spirit of the army and of the people were Bonapartist to the core.

The Restoration government at first suspected him as a Bonapartist, but at length granted him a pension.

After the return from Elba the Nain jaune became Bonapartist and fell into discredit.

The Bonapartist representatives were too thinly sowed to be able to build an independent parliamentary party.

The Bonapartist Representatives belonged from the start to the party of Order only in the struggle against the revolution.

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