Confucianist
Americannoun
adjective
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Ironically, some aspects of Communist rule are reminiscent of these Confucianist ideas.
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
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
To this day multitudes have never asked themselves whether they are Shinto or Buddhist or Confucianist.
From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick
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