Confucianist
Americannoun
adjective
Example Sentences
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Though no Confucianist, he obviously appreciates the sage's saying: "Without the menace of foreign aggression, a country is doomed."
From Time Magazine Archive
The party organ charged that Peach Mountain was a remake of a 1966 opera that ignored class struggle while promoting the Confucianist notion of a "kingdom of gentlemen."
From Time Magazine Archive
Ironically, some aspects of Communist rule are reminiscent of these Confucianist ideas.
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
He was a Buddhist as well as a Confucianist, but also a loyal and patriotic supporter of charitable institutions, and of the British rule.
From A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions by Strong, Augustus Hopkins
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