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Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Of or relating to Edmund Burke (1729–1797), Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, remembered for his support of the cause of the American Revolutionaries, and for his later opposition to the French Revolution.
2. 2
   Of or relating to Kenneth Burke (1897–1993), American writer and literary theorist who based his analyses on the nature of knowledge.

Etymology

From Burke + -ean.

Related phrases

american revolutionfrench revolution

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