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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_135222" /> ==
== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_135222" /> ==
<p> (1): (n.) A word used as a jocular oath. </p> <p> (2): (n.) A statesman who pursues, or who favors, aggressive, domineering policy in foreign affairs. </p>
<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) A word used as a jocular oath. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) A statesman who pursues, or who favors, aggressive, domineering policy in foreign affairs. </p>
          
          
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_75388" /> ==
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_75388" /> ==

Latest revision as of 17:35, 15 October 2021

Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( n.) A word used as a jocular oath.

(2): ( n.) A statesman who pursues, or who favors, aggressive, domineering policy in foreign affairs.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]

A name, of uncertain derivation, given to a political party favourable to an aggressive, menacing policy in foreign affairs, and first applied in 1877 to that political section in Great Britain which provoked the Turco-Russian war.

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