Archimperialist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A strong supporter of imperialism.

    "If the archimperialist Rudyard Kipling, the young Mohandas K. Gandhi, tribal leaders and Afrikaner supremacists could agree on anything about the war's consequences, it was, in Mr. Meredith's view, this: The machinations behind the making of South Africa would create patriotic fervors even worse than the ones they supplanted."

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"If the archimperialist Rudyard Kipling, the young Mohandas K. Gandhi, tribal leaders and Afrikaner supremacists could agree on anything about the war's consequences, it was, in Mr. Meredith's view, this: The machinations behind the making of South Africa would create patriotic fervors even worse than the ones they supplanted."

Etymology

From arch- + imperialist.

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