macdonaldite
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone who was loyal to Ramsay MacDonald, especially after he split from the Labour Party in 1931.
adj
Example Sentences
- "It is typically a vein-forming mineral associated with macdonaldite, opal, and witherite."
- "He had been, as she says, 'a great MacDonaldite.'"
- "Morrison, a MacDonaldite up to October 1931, later resorted to outright fiction in order to present himself as a leading anti-MacDonaldite during the August crisis."
- "Circumstances had something to do with the slackening of his partisan activities (in 1931 he was a MacDonaldite and ceased to be a member of a political party); but it was characteristic of him that the only cause which held his unwavering allegiance was that of Parliamentary democracy, which he understood to be a noble and historic manner of conducting politics, reaching decisions and digesting the differences characteristic of a modern European society."
- "MacDonaldite gradualism had assumed that progress could be piecemeal, incrementally gaining support and improving society – more and more people would come over to socialism as they saw its benefits in action."
- "It is not possible to improve the policy of MacDonald by mosaic corrections. If centrism comes to power, it will inevitably carry on a MacDonaldite, in other words a capitalist, policy."