Jacksonian

[ jak-soh-nee-uhn ]

/ dʒækˈsoʊ ni ən /

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adjective

of or relating to Andrew Jackson, his ideas, the period of his presidency, or the political principles or social values associated with him: Jacksonian democracy.

noun

a follower of Andrew Jackson.

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Origin of Jacksonian

An Americanism dating back to 1815–25; Jackson + -ian

Words nearby Jacksonian

jacksnipe, Jackson, Jackson, Andrew, Jackson Day, Jackson Hole, Jacksonian, Jacksonian democracy, jacksonian epilepsy, Jacksonism, Jackson, Jesse, Jackson's membrane

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How to use Jacksonian in a sentence

Healey describes his politics as "libertarian in some aspects, Jacksonian, Jeffersonian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative."
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He can use that affinity to build confidence for a Jacksonian approach to world chaos.
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That strategy clashes with a Republican base that is particularly Jacksonian in off-year elections, like the 2010 Tea Party wave.
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William Henry Harrison's notoriously long inaugural address expounded the theory and program of the anti-Jacksonian Whigs.
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But until Sunday, his foreign policy had lacked “Jacksonian” appeal.
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In the United States, after a generation of conservatism, Jacksonian democracy was to sweep all before it.
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Houston was a man after Benton's own heart, and was thoroughly Jacksonian in type.
Thomas Hart Benton|Theodore Roosevelt
After the ceremony was carried out he rose up, a Jacksonian Democrat in name, but a bluer Republican than ever.
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The drift was inevitable, and the climax came with the advent of Jacksonian democracy.
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This provision stood clear in the document; but judicial ingenuity had circumvented it in the age of Jacksonian Democracy.
History of the United States|Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard

British Dictionary definitions for Jacksonian

Jacksonian

/ (dʒækˈsəʊnɪən) /

adjective

of or relating to a person surnamed Jackson, esp Andrew Jackson

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