Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The political principles and social ideas of the aristocratic party in Prussia called Junkers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The principles of the aristocratic party in Prussia.
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- noun historical The principles of the
aristocratic party inPrussia .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Few of us, particularly few Americans, realize the debt which the whole world owes to Russia for her part in this four years struggle against German junkerism.
The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Harry H. Mead
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In Germany the junkers will be strong if they win the war, and their strength will revive junkerism all over the earth.
The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me William Allen White 1906
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He had seen Germany as a system, as imperialism and junkerism, as a callous materialist aggression, as the spirit that makes war, and the Allies as the protest of humanity against all these evil things.
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Delivered from Cæsarism and junkerism and with the advanced men of Germany at the head of a Republic, I should feel too secure of Germany's future to demand any of the ugly duties of government -- although the women will speak through the men.
The White Morning Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
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Cæsarism means the downfall not only of junkerism but of all the other kings and Grand Dukes -- who are powerful and wealthy in their own domains.
The White Morning Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
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