Confucianist
Americannoun
adjective
Example Sentences
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Explains Economist Pang Eng Fong: "There's a very Confucianist philosophy of government here that saving is good and spending is bad."
From Time Magazine Archive
The red-fezzed, toothbrush-mustached Briton accepted and announced that he was King of the entire Chinese province of Sinkiang, of some 3,000,000 Moslem, Buddhist, Confucianist, Taoist souls speaking Turkish, Russian, Chinese and Persian.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ironically, some aspects of Communist rule are reminiscent of these Confucianist ideas.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though no Confucianist, he obviously appreciates the sage's saying: "Without the menace of foreign aggression, a country is doomed."
From Time Magazine Archive
That is the way in which an orthodox Confucianist would talk when the question of eating beef might be the subject of conversation.
From Sidelights on Chinese Life by J. (John) Macgowan
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