Bolshevist
(ˈbɒlʃɪvɪst)
[a. Russ. bol{p}shev{iacu}st (now disused) Bolshevik.]
A Bolshevik; a supporter of Bolshevism. Also transf., esp. as a term of reproach for an out-and-out revolutionary. Also attrib. or as adj.
| 1917 19th Cent. Dec. 1106 The reign of Bolshevists and Terrorists. 1920 Edin. Rev. July 33 The Government of Styria, which, having a large industrial population of its own, is particularly sensitive to the ‘Bolshevist Peril’. 1920 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 513/1 Packing the meetings with Bolshevist agents. 1922 E. Wallace Flying Fifty-Five xxxiv. 204, I call a horse a Bolshevist when he doesn't run twice alike. 1926 W. J. Todd Port v. 83 Cheese (of not too bolshevist a nature) prepares the palate, but cheese is too violent a preparation for a fine old Port. 1940 Tablet 4 May 417/1 Under the Bolshevist-Nazi dictatorship, two hundred million human beings are forced to live deprived of the foundations on which Western civilization was built. |
Hence Bolsheˈvistic a., of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Bolshevists; ˌBolsheˈvistically adv.
| 1920 Glasgow Herald 14 May 9 London has established the alarming precedent of applying such words as ‘horrible’ and ‘Bolshevistic’ to the well-intentioned proposals of certain pious Churchmen. 1920 Punch 13 Oct. 282/1 In these Bolshevistic days I should have preferred of course to have started off with ‘Comrade’ or ‘Brother’. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers 69 Never, bolshevistically To be able to stand for all these! |