Bonapartean
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A supporter of Bonapartism.
"Yet so well advised were the Bonaparteans of their leader's promised coming, that during the preceding winte , a standing toast among them wa , “The violet, which will return in the spring.”"
- 1 Of or pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte or his family. dated
"That Austria was averse to the dethronement of Bonaparte, there can be no doubt, from her well known political character, and her interest in the continuation of the Bonapartean dynasty."
- 2 Of or pertaining to the philology of Louis Lucien Bonaparte
"It would be easy to extend the list of words that might be demonstrated, by means of the Bonapartean versions, to possess exclusively Northumbrian characteristics, from the lists about to be given (from which about thirty more words could be tested in the same manner and with the same results as the preceding five words have exhibited); but to repeat the same process so often over would only be tedious."
Example
More examples"That Austria was averse to the dethronement of Bonaparte, there can be no doubt, from her well known political character, and her interest in the continuation of the Bonapartean dynasty."
Etymology
From Bonaparte + -an.
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