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Jeffersonian
[ jef-er-soh-nee-uhn ]
adjective
- pertaining to or advocating the political principles and doctrines of Thomas Thomas Jefferson, especially those stressing minimum control by the central government, the inalienable rights of the individual, and the superiority of an agrarian economy and rural society.
noun
- a supporter of Thomas Jefferson or Jeffersonianism.
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Other Words From
- an·ti-Jef·fer·so·ni·an adjective noun
- Jef·fer·so·ni·an·ism noun
- pro-Jef·fer·so·ni·an adjective noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Jeffersonian1
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Example Sentences
Many features — from the six Jeffersonian domes that top the building to the yellow steel beams scattered throughout — mimic those in other parts of the airport.
Healey describes his politics as "libertarian in some aspects, Jacksonian, Jeffersonian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative."
It was an accomplishment of historic proportions, notes historian Abrahamson, of “a transformed Jeffersonian vision.”
Many factors ultimately undermined the first old agrarian Jeffersonian dream.
And that his feelings for Hamilton led to a government and a country that became Hamiltonian rather than Jeffersonian.
Have they not been, ever since that inauguration day, the cardinal principles of Jeffersonian democracy?
I am now, as I have ever been, true and faithful to the principles of Jeffersonian Democracy.
It starts with the idea of reproducing the Jeffersonian Ordinance.
There had been a long inclination on Jackson's part to the Jeffersonian policy.
Jeffersonian democracy, therefore, seems now to be nothing more than a meaningless form of expression.
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