sansculottism
(sænzkjuːˈlɒtɪz(ə)m)
[ad. F. sansculottisme, f. sansculotte: see above and -ism.]
The principles or practice of sansculottes.
| 1794 J. B. S. Morritt Let. 22 May (1914) ii. 32 His enemies charge him with sansculottism. 1799 Spirit Public Jrnls. III. 148 Liberty, Equality, and Sansculottism. 1833 Q. Rev. XLIX. 42 The abolition of all distinctions of dress, language, condition, and refinement; in a word, the establishment of general sans-culottism. 1886 A. Weir Hist. Basis Mod. Europe 572 The sansculottism of the early revolution. |
So sanscuˈlottist, one who favours sansculottism; also attrib. sanscuˈlottize v. trans., to make republican in character; intr., to favour sansculottic or republican principles.
| 1798 Anti-Jacobin No. 32. 254/2 The Citizen Imitator seems to have Sans-culottized the Original. 1831 Sir C. Wetherell in Hansard's Parl. Deb. Ser. iii. IV. 862 The sans-culottizing principles of the French Revolution. 1831 A. W. Fonblanque Eng. under 7 Administr. II. 103 [Sir C. Wetherell] is..full of fears lest the Bill should loosen the braces of the Constitution, and..‘sansculottise’ it... He should be the last person in the world to talk of sansculottising with such horror. 1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. i. ix, Teufelsdröckh, though a Sansculottist, is no Adamite. 1878 Seeley Stein III. 404 The vain sansculottist scribblers. |