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antirepublican

British

/ ˌæntɪrɪˈpʌblɪkən /

adjective

opposed to the principles or practice of republicanism

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noun

a person who is opposed to the principles or practice of republicanism

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A lifelong Democrat, Johnson proudly represented the nonslaveholding yeomen of the upland South and denounced the region’s elite as antirepublican aristocrats.

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Quietly accepting adulation, Jackson began to think of himself as the one man who could clean up the antirepublican corruption embodied in the scramble to succeed Monroe.

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Charles Maurras, 76, editor of the Royalist Action Fran false, diehard antirepublican and brilliant man of letters, was hiding from F.F.I, vengeance.

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