Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The principles or influence of the more respectable classes of society. See
sansculottism .
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Examples
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Then as to the term "woman," this nomenclature has been much affected by the universal _sans-culottism_ of the French Revolution, when the queen was called _citoyenne_.
Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
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Distribution of property, universal plunder, havoc, bloodshed, sans culottism, a red republic and the ghastly shapes of another Reign of Terror rose in frightful vividness before the fancy.
Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg
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And this, mind you, is the record of a city famed far more for monuments, pleasure-grounds, and beautiful women, than for lawlessness and sans-culottism, a city proud of its families and its culture, a city one of the oldest and richest in the land.
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We wish to know if a cultural, a literary sans-culottism is possible, except with chaos as a goal.
Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Henry Seidel Canby 1919
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This Marat Company, the police of the Revolutionary Committee, enrolled from the scourings of Nantes 'sans-culottism, and captained by a ruffian named Fleury, had been called into being by Carrier himself with the assistance of Goullin.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series Rafael Sabatini 1912
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The horse business was certainly in the best vein of sans-culottism.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series Rafael Sabatini 1912
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She softened the suspicions of the radical Republicans by her affectation of sans-culottism and her familiarity with the members of the Girondin and Terrorist governments.
The Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte Tarbell, Ida 1899
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Pipe-clay and method gave way to Sans-culottism and dash.
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{266} The following passage from Desmoulins shows the unfortunate journalist at his best, when, backed by Danton, in December 1793, he raised the standard of mercy against terrorism and the infamous sans-culottism of Hébert.
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If you adopt this truth in its false, perverted form, then, at certain times, this will produce the most terrible devastation, as was the case in the period of _sans-culottism.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle Kuno Francke 1892
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