Bonapartist

[ boh-nuh-pahr-tist ]

noun

1. an adherent of the Bonapartes or their policies.

Other Words From

• Bona·partism noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of Bonapartist¹

1805–15; earlier Buonapartist. See Bonaparte, -ist

Example Sentences

The spirit of the army and of the people were Bonapartist to the core.

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The Restoration government at first suspected him as a Bonapartist, but at length granted him a pension.

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After the return from Elba the Nain jaune became Bonapartist and fell into discredit.

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The Bonapartist representatives were too thinly sowed to be able to build an independent parliamentary party.

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The Bonapartist Representatives belonged from the start to the party of Order only in the struggle against the revolution.

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