Definitions
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- noun One who
deviates from accepted beliefs or policies, especially from a prescribed form ofCommunism .
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- noun an ideological defector from the party line (especially from orthodox communism)
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Examples
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The Islamist party's Selangor leader Datuk Hassan Ali has been at the forefront in policing what he called deviationist movements like the Ahmadiyah and stopping the sale of alcohol in Muslim-majority areas.
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Right now, it’s pretty much just me and DTM, but I’m starting to think he’s a right-deviationist from the true path of joeism.
Matthew Yglesias » Earnings Dropping, Energy Prices Rising 2010
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Malaysian Muslims risk being branded "deviationist" and suffer the worldly consequences should they by chance stray from the official line or dare express independent thought.
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CPUSA elements from SDS leadership and declared the refurbished SDS leadership would be responsible for the correct Marxist-Leninist line and would exclude non-Maoist, "deviationist" views.
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CPUSA elements from SDS leadership and declared the refurbished SDS leadership would be responsible for the correct Marxist-Leninist line and would exclude non-Maoist, "deviationist" views.
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The momentum against the "deviationist tendency" provided an ideal opportunity for Ayatollah Khamenei to assert his religio-political authority and remind all dissidents, present and future, as well as the common folk, who the undisputed single leader of the country was.
Ali Rahnema: Ayatollah Khamenei at Unprecedented Religio-Political Summits: The Hidden Imam's Infallible Representative Ali Rahnema 2011
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To discipline him, rumours by highly placed security sources began circulating to the effect that certain members of his cabinet connected with the "deviationist tendency" would shortly be arrested.
Ali Rahnema: Ayatollah Khamenei at Unprecedented Religio-Political Summits: The Hidden Imam's Infallible Representative Ali Rahnema 2011
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To discipline him, rumours by highly placed security sources began circulating to the effect that certain members of his cabinet connected with the "deviationist tendency" would shortly be arrested.
Ali Rahnema: Ayatollah Khamenei at Unprecedented Religio-Political Summits: The Hidden Imam's Infallible Representative Ali Rahnema 2011
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The momentum against the "deviationist tendency" provided an ideal opportunity for Ayatollah Khamenei to assert his religio-political authority and remind all dissidents, present and future, as well as the common folk, who the undisputed single leader of the country was.
Ali Rahnema: Ayatollah Khamenei at Unprecedented Religio-Political Summits: The Hidden Imam's Infallible Representative Ali Rahnema 2011
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To discipline him, rumours by highly placed security sources began circulating to the effect that certain members of his cabinet connected with the "deviationist tendency" would shortly be arrested.
Ali Rahnema: Ayatollah Khamenei at Unprecedented Religio-Political Summits: The Hidden Imam's Infallible Representative Ali Rahnema 2011
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