Imperialism
[ɪm'pɪərɪəlɪz(ə)m] or [ɪm'pɪrɪəlɪzəm]
Definition
(noun.) any instance of aggressive extension of authority.
(noun.) a political orientation that advocates imperial interests.
(noun.) a policy of extending your rule over foreign countries.
Typist: Miranda--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The power or character of an emperor; imperial authority; the spirit of empire.
Checker: Uriah
Examples
- In spite of such support, and its strong appeal to national vanity, British imperialism never saturated the mass of the British peoples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The militarism and imperialism of Britain and France and Italy are by comparison feeble, disorganized, and disorganizing survivals. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the Tsar Alexander I, who was never direct, this direct new imperialism met the old. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This digression into the history of Ireland now comes up to the time of infectious imperialism in Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His new imperialism reflected upon the old. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The disasters of Russia in Manchuria in 1905 released the spirit of German imperialism to bolder aggressions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But in one very important respect British and German imperialism differed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have told, too, how, when the plutocratic Roman system and its resultant imperialism had come and gone again, this process of inquiry was renewed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These Russian masses were three centuries away from such nationalist imperialism as Germany displayed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- German imperialism, with its organized grip upon education and its close alliance with an aggressive commercialism, was beaten and finished. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For though it was a united Germany that had overcome French imperialism, it had Prussia in the saddle. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There has been a deterioration in the quality of British imperialism in relation to subject peoples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His conversion to socialism was noted, but it gained no converts to imperialism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- An essential condition of the peace he sought through the overthrow of German imperialism was, he declared, to be this federal organ. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We shall find great masses of people inspired to passionate devotion, by ideas of nationalism, of imperialism, of class-conscious socialism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The greater imperialisms of Austria, Russia, and Italy watched that conflict and one another. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Natalie