cisatlantic
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of cisatlantic
Example Sentences
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Our second, never to suffer Europe to meddle in cisatlantic affairs.”
From Thomas Jefferson by Henry Childs Merwin
New plans—secular, ethical, philosophical, religious, cisatlantic, transatlantic—long enough to make a line reaching from the German universities to Great Salt Lake City.
From New Tabernacle Sermons by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
The opinions of some carried their own condemnation in their obvious extravagance; and hyperbolical admiration fairly ran itself out of breath in speaking of the wonders of this cisatlantic young Roscius.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
Both preferred a continental to an insular manner of life, a cisatlantic to a transatlantic place of residence.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
America did not become a cisatlantic Britain, as some of the colonial adventurers had hoped.
From The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners by Samuel Peter Orth
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