Republic
[rɪ'pʌblɪk]
Definition
(noun.) a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch; 'the head of state in a republic is usually a president'.
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Definition
(a.) Common weal.
(a.) A state in which the sovereign power resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by representatives elected by them; a commonwealth. Cf. Democracy, 2.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Commonwealth, popular government, representative government.
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Definition
n. a commonwealth: a form of government without a monarch in which the supreme power is vested in representatives elected by the people.—adj. Repub′lican belonging to a republic: agreeable to the principles of a republic.—n. one who advocates a republican form of government: a democrat: one of the two great political parties in the United States opposed to the Democrats favouring a high protective tariff a liberal expenditure and an extension of the powers of the national government.—v.t. Repub′licanise.—n. Repub′licanism the principles of republican government: attachment to republican government.—n. Republicā′rian.—Republic of Letters a name for the general body of literary and learned men.—Republican era the era adopted by the French after the downfall of the monarchy beginning with 22d September 1792.—Red republican a violent republican from the red cap affected by such.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A nation in which the thing governing and the thing governed being the same there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience. In a republic the foundation of public order is the ever lessening habit of submission inherited from ancestors who being truly governed submitted because they had to. There are as many kinds of republics as there are graduations between the despotism whence they came and the anarchy whither they lead.
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Examples
- I want to go to the Republic. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There was no one, I mean, to tell me about the republic of the spirit. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- India is still the empire of the Great Mogul, but the Great Mogul has been replaced by the crowned republic of Great Britain. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was one with the _Ingl閟_ still working under the bridge and he was one with all of the battle and with the Republic. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- After his downfall, the Republic still ruled unassailable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Indeed throughout the Republic he allows the lower ranks to fade into the distance. Plato. The Republic.
- It was only after this foolish exploit that the idea of a republic took hold of the French mind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But a Greek republic would have been dangerous to all monarchy in a Europe that fretted under the ideas of the Holy Alliance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nor will it be against the Republic. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The delineation of Socrates in the Republic is not wholly consistent. Plato. The Republic.
- Needless to say, this weak aristocratic republic, with its recurrent royal elections, invited aggression from all three of its neighbours. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This was the land of C?sar--and C?sar was a bad example for the successful general of a not very stable republic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In both the Republic and Statesman a close connection is maintained between Politics and Dialectic. Plato. The Republic.
- The first of them told him so, with the customary prison sign of Death--a raised finger--and they all added in words, Long live the Republic! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He described this republic; shewed how it gave privilege to each individual in the state, to rise to consequence, and even to temporary sovereignty. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The republics of Genoa and Pisa were very powerful in the Middle Ages. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Greeks and Latins lapsed very easily again into republics, and so did the Aryans in India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The venerable Mother of the Republics is scarce a fit subject for flippant speech or the idle gossipping of tourists. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Better the republics of Athens, Sparta, and Thebes, than such playing at monarchy. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But in the ancient republics of Greece and Italy, every citizen was a soldier, and both served, and prepared himself for service, at his own expense. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Those republics encouraged the acquisition of those exercises, by bestowing little premiums and badges of distinction upon those who excelled in them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Thousands of comparatively pacific little village republics and chieftainships were spread over the land. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The event of that day determined the fate of the two rival republics. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- BOOK V THE RISE AND COLLAPSE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE XXVII THE TWO WESTERN REPUBLICS[224] § 1. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Small republics have sometimes derived a considerable revenue from the profit of mercantile projects. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They consisted, indeed, of a very different order of people from the first inhabitants of the ancient republics of Greece and Italy. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Grouped about France, these republics were to be a constellation of freedom leading the world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They never achieved any unity in India; their history is a history of warring kings and republics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But most of the Greek city states had become aristocratic republics long before the sixth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For the most part these European towns were independent or quasi-independent aristocratic republics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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