majoritarian

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Pronunciation
/məˈd͡ʒɒɹ.ɪ.tɛə.ɹi.ən/
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/məˈd͡ʒɒɹ.ɪ.tɛə.ɹi.ən/ · /məˈd͡ʒɒɹ.ɪ.tə.ɹi.ən/ · /məˈd͡ʒɑ.ɹɪ.tɛɹ.i.ən/(US) · /məˈd͡ʒɔɹ.ɪ.tɛɹ.i.ən/(US) · /məˈd͡ʒɔɹ.ɪ.tə.ɹiən/(US)

Definition of majoritarian

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Supporting the dominance of the majority over the minority.
    “Early in June came the delegation of the German Majority Socialists, which included—besides [Philipp] Scheidemann, the Majoritarian leader—that Hermann Müller who, on the eve of the declaration of war, had invited the French Socialists to vote against war credits.”
    “He [Paul Cambon] knows how to use to the best advantage of everybody concerned a secretary of Embassy, an officer, a bishop, or a “Majoritarian” Socialist.”
    “A better peace and one no more likely to be broken by another war than the one that the Conference is supposed to be trying to arrange could have been got long ago, if it had suited the Allied statesmen to permit the mediation of the Pope, or, later, to work for peace with the Majoritarian Government of Russia.”
    “No. He proposes to employ majoritarian bullying to overturn the legal and constitutional balance of power for the vapid purpose of upholding “popular values,” whatever and whose ever those are.”
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adj

  1. Supporting the dominance of the majority over the minority.
    “Early in June came the delegation of the German Majority Socialists, which included—besides [Philipp] Scheidemann, the Majoritarian leader—that Hermann Müller who, on the eve of the declaration of war, had invited the French Socialists to vote against war credits.”
    “He [Paul Cambon] knows how to use to the best advantage of everybody concerned a secretary of Embassy, an officer, a bishop, or a “Majoritarian” Socialist.”
    “A better peace and one no more likely to be broken by another war than the one that the Conference is supposed to be trying to arrange could have been got long ago, if it had suited the Allied statesmen to permit the mediation of the Pope, or, later, to work for peace with the Majoritarian Government of Russia.”
    “No. He proposes to employ majoritarian bullying to overturn the legal and constitutional balance of power for the vapid purpose of upholding “popular values,” whatever and whose ever those are.”

noun

  1. One who supports the dominance of the majority over the minority.
    “It is difficult to use terms which are accurate without being too definite, but to borrow the terminology of the French Socialists one may say that now on the National Executive of the Labour party majoritarians and minoritarians are about equally balanced, and in the Labour party Conference the minoritarians seem to be getting the majority.”
    “The French majoritarians and the British laborites, who, together dominated the conference, demanded peace with the German majoritarians.”
    “THE EFFORTS OF THE RUSSIAN MAJORITARIANS, AND WHY THEY WERE FRUSTRATED. Archbishop Mannix on the Secret Treaty, and Colonel Raymond Robins on the Majoritarians.”
  2. One who is in majority.

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Etymology

From majority + -arian.

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