Bonapartist

American  

[boh-nuh-pahr-tist] / ˈboʊ nəˌpɑr tɪst /

noun

1. an adherent of the Bonapartes or their policies.

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Other Word Forms

• Bonapartism noun

Etymology

Origin of Bonapartist

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

Example Sentences

Because of the gestural similarity of the outstretched arms, the photograph is sometimes compared to Goya’s painting “The Third of May, 1808,” of a Spanish partisan facing a Bonapartist firing squad.

From New York Times

Brice Teinturier, the director of the Ipsos polling firm in France, said that Mr. Macron, realizing his Jupiterian image was a liability during the Yellow Vest crisis, has by now largely succeeded in turning his strong “Bonapartist” style into an electoral advantage.

From New York Times

This painful history has tended to be eclipsed for many by the magnetism of the epic Bonapartist saga, which Mr. Macron described as “above all, an ode to political will.”

From New York Times

This history has tended to be eclipsed by the magnetism of the Bonapartist saga.

From New York Times

At the start of the Iranian upheaval, the papers show, Mr. Kissinger advised Mr. Rockefeller that the probable conclusion would be “a sort of Bonapartist counterrevolution that rallies the pro-Western elements together with what was left of the army.”

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