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Liebknecht

[ leep-knekht ]

noun

  1. Karl [kah, r, l], 1871–1919, German socialist leader.
  2. his father Wil·helm [vil, -helm], 1826–1900, German journalist and political leader.


Liebknecht

/ ˈliːpknɛçt /

noun

  1. LiebknechtKarl18711919MGermanPOLITICS: socialist leaderPOLITICS: revolutionary Karl (karl). 1871–1919, German socialist leader: with Rosa Luxemburg he led an unsuccessful Communist revolt (1919) and was assassinated
  2. LiebknechtWilhelm18261900MGermanPOLITICS: socialist leaderWRITING: journalist his father, Wilhelm (ˈvɪlhɛlm). 1826–1900, German socialist leader and journalist, a founder (1869) of what was to become (1891) the German Social Democratic 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


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Example Sentences

Liebknecht, for example, declared that he had never before experienced so great a disappointment.

Marx was, so Liebknecht tells us, one of the first to recognize the importance of Darwin's investigations to sociology.

"We spoke for months of nothing else but Darwin, and the revolutionizing power of his scientific conquests," says Liebknecht.

"It was a terrible time, but it was grand nevertheless," wrote Liebknecht years afterward to Eleanor Marx.

Wilhelm Liebknecht, then twenty-two years of age, who was in favor of Herwegh's project, wrote afterward of Marx's opposition.

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