unrepublican
- adjective
- /ˌʌn.rɪˈpʌb.lɪ.kən/
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antirrepublicano
- But would not such independence from the people render the new government, by definition, unrepublican and dangerous to liberty, as the Constitution's opponents claimed?
Examples
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One of the reasons Washington and Jefferson were so anxious to establish first-class universities in the United States was that they worried about the corrupting influence of European capitals, with their luxury and their unrepublican principles, on American students sent to study abroad.
Academic text (1994) -
The one notable exception was the planter class in the South, a point abolitionists stressed in making the case that a slaveholding society was inherently unrepublican.
Blog text (32) -
The proposed law was deemed unrepublican because it undermined democratic principles.
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Critics argued that the new policy was unrepublican, as it concentrated power in the hands of a few.
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Many believed that the senator's actions were unrepublican, violating the core values of the party.
Synonyms
Not supporting the Republican Party or its ideas
Antonyms
How Republican
Surface Forms
Morphology
unrepublican = republican (transparent) = un + republican
Formed by adding the productive negative prefix 'un-' to the adjective 'republican'; the negated meaning is directly deducible.
Etymology
Unrepublican begins with un- meaning 'not' and comes from republic, a word related to the familiar public that originally meant 'the people's business'. So, unrepublican describes actions or ideas that are not in line with a republic's principles or with the Republican party.