Girondist Definition

jərändist
noun
A member of a French political party (1791-93) that advocated moderate republican principles: it was suppressed by the Jacobins.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • girondin
adjective
Designating or of this party.
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Other Word Forms of Girondist

Noun

Singular:
Girondist
Plural:
girondists

Origin of Girondist

  • French Girondiste; so called because their leaders were deputies from the department of La Gironde.

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Girondist Sentence Examples

  • The rupture had not yet been made evident between the Girondist party and that section still more extreme, that of the Mountain.

  • Pache had twice been minister of war in the Girondist government; but his incompetence had laid him open to strong criticism, and on the 4th of February he had been superseded by a vote of the Convention.

  • The list drawn up by Hanriot, and endorsed by a decree of the intimidated Convention, included twenty-two Girondist deputies and ten members of the Commission of Twelve, who were ordered to be detained at their lodgings "under the safeguard of the people."

  • On the 3rd of October of the same year (11 Vendemiaire, year III.) a solemn fete in honour of the Girondist "martyrs of liberty" was celebrated in the Convention.

  • P. Brissot, whom he had met in London, he became minister of finance in the Girondist ministry, from March to the 12th of June 1792.

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