Condorcet
Americannoun
noun
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The Marquis de Condorcet and Jacques Pierre Brissot were Girondins who lost their lives in the Terror before the abolition of slavery, for which they had long campaigned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
Gore winning any hypothetical one-on-one election would make him a so-called Condorcet candidate.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 2, 2023
Its author, the mathematician and philosopher Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, saw no limits to the capacity of human intelligence, and called on his readers to use it to build a better society.
From Nature ● Dec. 12, 2019
The convention enabled Condorcet to draft the world’s first democratic constitution.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2018
It was a real religion, the religion of progress, of the eighteenth century which had its devotees and with Condorcet its martyr.
From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert
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