Confucianist
Americannoun
adjective
Example Sentences
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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
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
The first of these opinions was proposed by a most reputed Confucianist scholar, Mencius, and his followers, and is still adhered to by the majority of the Japanese and the Chinese Confucianists.
From The Religion of the Samurai A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan by Nukariya, Kaiten
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