Insurrectionalist
adj, name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Alternative form of Insurrectionalist. alt-of, alternative
"ModestIy-armed insurrectionalists battled in the streets against Somoza's 7,500-member National Guard — 4,200 of which have been trained by the U.S. in Nicaragua or at military bases in the Panama Canal Zone and the United States — and..."
- 2 Alternative form of insurrectionist. alt-of, alternative
"...on October 5, 1795, the 13th Vendémiaire, an IV, the insurrectionalists were up and assembling bright and early ; but they found the rue Saint-Honoré guarded from the Place de la Révolution to the Palais-Royal, ..."
- 3 A proponent of insurrectionalism
"For this reason the proletarians of our country have been so long divided in revolutionary syndicalists or insurrectionalists and reformists or evolutionarists."
- 1 Pertaining to insurrectionalism.
"It is in this sense that one can say that this poem contributes to form and educate the insurrectionalist spirit as well as stimulate revolt against the oppressor."
- 1 A member of the insurrectional faction of the FSLN that defeated Anastasio Somoza García on 1979.
"The Insurrectionalists faction, led by brothers Daniel and Humberto Ortega and Mexican-born Victor Tirado, gradually assumed international prominence as the group most capable of waging direct war against Somoza."
Synonyms
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More examples"It is in this sense that one can say that this poem contributes to form and educate the insurrectionalist spirit as well as stimulate revolt against the oppressor."
Etymology
From insurrectional + -ist.
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