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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ANTI-IMPERIALISM

ANTI-IMPERIALISM An `ti-im *pe "ri *al *ism, n.

 

Defn: Opposition to imperialism; -- applied specif. , in the United States, after the Spanish-American war (1898 ), to the attitude or principles of those opposing territorial expansion; in England, of those, often called Little Englanders, opposing the extension of the empire and the closer relation of its parts, esp. in matters of commerce and imperial defense. -- An `ti-im *pe "ri *al *ist, n. -- An `ti- im *pe `ri *al *is "tic (#), a.

 

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