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antiempire

antiempire adjective: opposing an empire.

Adjective

antiempire (comparative more antiempire, superlative most antiempire)

  1. Opposing an empire.
    • Black Beauty is a new gendered text of empire, embedding an innovative discourse that is anticapture, anticruelty, antiwar, and antiempire yet shies from any critique of antediluvian feudal relations. Consequently, Sewell could not easily bring ...1998, Moira Ferguson, Animal Advocacy and Englishwomen, 1780-1900, page 102
    • In light of these changes, it is tempting to label the period from 1783 to 1880 as “antiempire” because of the dampened enthusiasm for large-scale imperialist activities.2010, Karen Racine, Beatriz G. Mamigonian, The Human Tradition in the Atlantic World, 1500–1850, page 210

Forms of antiempire

comparativemore antiempire
superlativemost antiempire

Origin of antiempire

From anti- + empire.

Questions about antiempire

What does antiempire mean?
Antiempire means opposing an empire.
What part of speech is antiempire?
Antiempire is an adjective.

Words near antiempire in the dictionary

  1. antiemotional
  2. antiemotionalism
  3. antiemperor
  4. antiemperors
  5. antiemphysemic
  6. antiempire
  7. antiempirical
  8. antiempiricism
  9. antiempiricist
  10. antiempiricists
  11. antiemployee

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