quislingist

English

Adjective

quislingist (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of Quislingist
   • 1941, The Contemporary Review - Volume 159, page 100:

     He went to Berlin on December 5th, to report a growing resentment in the Norwegian schools against the minority of pupils who had accepted the quislingist impositions. Disorder was spreading in every Norwegian town and village.

   • 1943, William Ebenstein, The Nazi State, page 335:

     The Nazis have shown particular anger and indignation against the Slavs because they have not thrown up any native quislingist movements.

   • 1943, Bjarne Höye, Trygve M. Ager, The Fight of the Norwegian Church Against Nazism, page 9:

     This was roughly one month after Nazism's "New Era" had been inaugurated by the formation of the quislingist shadow-government, composed of so-called "commissarial councillors" under German control.

Noun

quislingist (plural quislingists)

1. Alternative form of Quislingist
   • 1941, Sir Ronald Storrs, Philip Perceval Graves, A Record of the War - Volume 8, page 186:

     The quislingists however, suffered a defeat at the hands of the doctors.

   • 1942, The American-Scandinavian review - Volume 30, page 77:

     Time bombs had been placed in the East and West Railway stations where the quislingists from all over the country who had come to Oslo for the ceremony were just about to take their trains to go home.

   • 1943, News from Belgium and the Belgian Congo, page 24:

     A German-appointed mayor was seriously wounded and a large number of quislingists wearing Nazi badges were beaten up in other parts of Belgium.