Prepopulist

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Prior to the onset of populism. not-comparable

    "STANWYCK REDUX (Tuesday) An extension of the Brooklyn Academy of Music s popular Barbara Stanwyck series from last spring, featuring that Brooklyn bombshell in one of her strongest pre-Code films, The Miracle Woman, a thinly veiled portrait of the evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson directed, in his prepopulist phase, by Frank Capra."

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"STANWYCK REDUX (Tuesday) An extension of the Brooklyn Academy of Music s popular Barbara Stanwyck series from last spring, featuring that Brooklyn bombshell in one of her strongest pre-Code films, The Miracle Woman, a thinly veiled portrait of the evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson directed, in his prepopulist phase, by Frank Capra."

Etymology

From pre- + populist.

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