Bonapartist

[boh-nuh-pahr-tist]

noun

1. an adherent of the Bonapartes or their policies.

Other Word Forms

• Bonapartism noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of Bonapartist¹

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

Example Sentences

Because of the gestural similarity of the outstretched arms, the photograph is sometimes compared to Goya’s painting “The Third of May, 1808,” of a Spanish partisan facing a Bonapartist firing squad.

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Brice Teinturier, the director of the Ipsos polling firm in France, said that Mr. Macron, realizing his Jupiterian image was a liability during the Yellow Vest crisis, has by now largely succeeded in turning his strong “Bonapartist” style into an electoral advantage.

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This painful history has tended to be eclipsed for many by the magnetism of the epic Bonapartist saga, which Mr. Macron described as “above all, an ode to political will.”

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This history has tended to be eclipsed by the magnetism of the Bonapartist saga.

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I stopped and read the inscription: from the Bonapartist Groups, some date; I forget.

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