dynamitard
English
Noun
dynamitard (plural dynamitards)
- (archaic or historical) A political dynamiter.
- 1903 George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman Preface:
- Are we then to repudiate Fabian methods, and return to those of the barricader, or adopt those of the dynamitard and the assassin?
- 2014 June, Guy Beiner "Fenianism and the Martyrdom-Terrorism Nexus in Ireland before Independence" in Martyrdom and Terrorism: Pre-Modern to Contemporary Perspectives Dominic Janes and Alex Houen Oxford University Press →ISBN DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199959853.003.0010
- The president of the funeral committee was Thomas Clarke, a former Clan na Gael dynamitard who had been arrested in 1883, before he even commenced activities, and had served fifteen years of particularly harsh imprisonment.
- 1903 George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman Preface:
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dynamitard”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)