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federalist

[ fed-er-uh-list ]

noun

  1. an advocate of federalism.
  2. (initial capital letter) U.S. History. a member or supporter of the Federalist party.


adjective

  1. Also fed·er·al·is·tic []. of federalism or the Federalists.

Federalist

/ ˈfɛdərəlɪst /

noun

  1. a supporter or member of the Federalist party
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. characteristic of the Federalists
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • hy·per·fed·er·al·ist noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of federalist1

An Americanism dating back to 1780–90; federal + -ist
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Example Sentences

Though Abiy’s government will weather the storm, there is more controversy to come as he moves forward with plans to amend Ethiopia’s constitution to change the country’s ethno-federalist structure.

From Time

America’s federalist structure also makes collective action, handed down from the federal level, extremely difficult.

From Vox

And as one of the initial organizers of the Federalist Society, he is a skilled political tactician.

In the Federalist Papers, James Madison wrote, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.”

As Madison put it in Federalist 52, the House was to be “dependent on the People alone.”

Not the rich,” as he wrote in Federalist 57, “more than the poor.

The first sentence of The Federalist Society states that this is a book “about the power of ideas.”

But Mr. Parnell was thinking only of Ireland, and he was not a Federalist.

But the propertied classes in the interior belonged chiefly to the Federalist party.

To-day Jeffersons directions are observed, and the Federalist remains the text-book.

He says the Republican and the Federalist parties were divided by a bottomless gulf in their theories of constitutional powers.

The Federalist clergy joined in denouncing Jefferson on the ground that he was an atheist.

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