Bonapartist

[ boh-nuh-pahr-tist ]

/ ˈboʊ nəˌpɑr tɪst /

noun

an adherent of the Bonapartes or their policies.

Origin of Bonapartist

1805–15; earlier Buonapartist. See Bonaparte, -ist

Related forms

Bo·na·part·ism, noun

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Examples from the Web for bonapartism

They had talked quite freely before him, consulted with him when local Bonapartism appeared uncomfortably rampant.
The Bronze Eagle|Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
His volume on Bonapartism was a study of the chief political opponent of Prussian supremacy.
German Problems and Personalities|Charles Sarolea
The cabals continue; but later, on the overthrow of Bonapartism, he is actually raised to the episcopate.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2|George Saintsbury
Bonapartism now, for the first time, made its entry into the yellow drawing-room.
The Fortune of the Rougons|Emile Zola

In this way, not democracy, but Bonapartism, appears in Marx's eyes as the final form of bourgeois power.
Dictatorship vs. Democracy|Leon Trotsky

British Dictionary definitions for bonapartism

Bonapartism

/ (ˈbəʊnəpɑːˌtɪzəm) /

noun

a political system resembling the rules of the Bonapartes, esp Napoleon I and Napoleon III: centralized government by a military dictator, who enjoys popular support given expression in plebiscites

(esp in France) support for the government or dynasty of Napoleon Bonaparte

Derived Forms

Bonapartist, noun

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