Maistre

/ mɛstrə /

noun

1. MaistreJosephe de17531821MFrenchWRITING: writerPOLITICS: diplomat Josephe de (ʒozɛf də). 1753–1821, French writer and diplomat, noted for his extreme reactionary views, expounded in such works as Les Soirées de St Petersbourg (1821)

Example Sentences

He has not the exaltation nor the ardent vehemence of Rousseau, neither has he the sentimental morbidity of Xavier de Maistre.

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Other thinkers, like Joseph de Maistre, have glorified war in the name of theology.

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It was there that a priest, M. Le Maistre, had been tomahawked, in August 1661.

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Joseph de Maistre, in his profound ignorance of the Inquisition, started the theory that it was a mere political agency.

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For Hobbes's theory of sovereignty, and even its application by the ultramontane De Maistre, had always an attraction for him.

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