right-wing
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See also: rightwing and right wing
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Etymology
From the seating arrangement in the French parliament after the French Revolution.
Adjective
right-wing (comparative more right-wing, superlative most right-wing)
- (politics) Of political ideologies: typically supporting tradition, social order and property rights, especially conservative, traditionalist, and/or reactionary politics.
- 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn:
- It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense "Left". Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence. Since about 1930 everyone describable as an “intellectual” has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order.
- 2007 July 13, Kyle Whitmire, “Suit in U.S. Over Murders in Colombia”, in The New York Times:
- From the start of its operations in Colombia, the company was on guard against the decadeslong civil strife in the country between left-wing guerrilla and right-wing paramilitary groups, witnesses have testified.
Synonyms
- rightish, right
- conservative (particularly US, Canada, and UK)
- Tory (particularly the UK)
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resisting political change
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