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English
Etymology
From Napoleon + -ist.
Noun
Napoleonist (plural Napoleonists)
- A supporter of the dynasty of the Napoleons.
Adjective
Napoleonist (comparative more Napoleonist, superlative most Napoleonist)
- Supporting, relating to, or characteristic of, the dynasty of the Napoleons.
1859, The History of England, page 774, column 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.
1870, Theodore Tilton, “Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, in Sanctum Sanctorum; or, Proof-Sheets from an Editor’s Table, New York, N.Y.: Sheldon & Company, page 34:Mr. F ⸺ hints that your people are not very Napoleonist.
1876 March 4, “End of the Carlist War”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume XLI, number 1,062, London: , page 286, column 1:The Spanish legend of a golden age of absolute royalty was even more baseless than the Jacobinical or the Napoleonist legend of France.
1912, A. R. Allinson, transl., Intimate Memoirs of Napoleon III: Personal Reminiscences of the Man and the Emperor, London: Stanley Paul & Co., translation of original by Baron d’Ambès, page 158:Hugo is very Napoleonist, as is generally understood.
1931, Oscar Ludmann, Stepchild of the Rhine: An Autobiography, New York, N.Y.: Alfred H. King, Inc., page 79:Only a week ago I was court-martialed for having attacked my officer and school teacher, and my grandfather is Napoleonist.
2008, Aidan Nichols, The Realm: An Unfashionable Essay on the Conversion of England, Oxford: Family Publications, →ISBN, page 95:Fascism was Napoleonist.
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