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Definition of Expansionists
1. expansionist [n] - See also: expansionist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expansionists
Literary usage of Expansionists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Exciting Experiences in Our Wars with Spain and the Filipinos by Marshall Everett (1900)
"They made the point against Democratic anti-expansionists that all of the territory
... One large element among the expansionists was composed of those in ..."
2. Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1906 by Benson John Lossing, Woodrow Wilson (1905)
"ANTI-expansionists were opposed to the extension of American the Union, and whose
people are willing territory which had been brought ..."
3. The Mississippi Valley in British Politics: A Study of the Trade, Land by Clarence Walworth Alvord (1916)
"These latter may be divided into two classes: the moderate expansionists wished
to permit settlements to be extended gradually under the supervision of ..."
4. Liberty Documents: With Contemporary Exposition and Critical Comments Drawn by Mabel Hill, Albert Bushnell Hart (1901)
"And it seems to us that those who have not been expansionists might well join
those who are expansionists but are not imperialists upon this new issue now ..."
5. The Centennial History of Illinois by Illinois Centennial Commission, Clarence Walworth Alvord (1920)
"Futile as such an attempt would have been, yet it was the opinion of the conservative
anti-expansionists among the politicians that the white men should be ..."
6. Liberty Documents: With Contemporary Exposition and Critical Comments Drawn by Mabel Hill, Albert Bushnell Hart (1901)
"And it seems to us that those who have not been expansionists might well join
those who are expansionists but are not imperialists upon this new issue now ..."
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