postrevolutionary
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- adjective
- /ˌpoʊstˌrɛvəˈluːʃənˌɛri/
- A more sustained examination of women's particular situation appears in the second part of the work, devoted exclusively to postrevolutionary France.
- postrevolutionary Mexico
Examples
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The widespread diffusion of American movies occurred precisely at a time when Mexican postrevolutionary society was immersed in a strong nationalistic movement, which began around 1920.
Academic text (2017) -
Indeed, Gericault's blunt realism is more eloquent about the collective trauma of postrevolutionary French society than many a set of contemporary memoirs.
Academic text (1992) -
Information on postrevolutionary German Catholics in New York City is sparse.
Academic text (1993) -
Furthermore, a postrevolutionary government could penalize foreign investors by seeking environmental restitution.
Academic text (1997) -
Belmonte's postrevolutionary Municipal Assembly is taking on a prerevolutionary character.
Academic text (1990) -
A wait-and-see policy, sometimes alternating between modest support and mild opposition for the state, characterizes postrevolutionary developments.
Academic text (1990) -
But while social scientists in the 1970s were right to characterize the postrevolutionary Mexican regime as authoritarian and hegemonic, they were wrong about the nature of hegemony.
Academic text (1996) -
As the release dates of these films testify, the practice of historical compilation continued well into the postrevolutionary period of the 1920s and beyond, apparently serving both as historical commemoration and as a conduit for nationalist sentiment as the postrevolutionary regime consolidated its power.
Academic text (2017) -
Since the 1970s, accounts of politics in postrevolutionary Mexico have assumed that ongoing domination has resulted from centralized, relatively homogeneous power transmitted outward through corporatist mechanisms.
Academic text (1996) -
The postrevolutionary government implemented new laws to address the needs of the citizens.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
postrevolutionary = revolutionary (transparent) = post + revolution + ary
The prefix 'post-' clearly indicates a time following 'revolutionary'.
Etymology
The word postrevolutionary is built from post- meaning 'after' and revolution, a word that comes from the idea of a 'turn' like revolve. So postrevolutionary describes the time or things that come 'after' a big political change.