DCHP-3

annexationist

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a person advocating annexation.

Quotations

1849
The Annexationists of Montreal . . . have now to set forth the reasons for our separation from the British Empire.
1916
And while in Canada there might be as yet few annexationists, the tendency of a vast and intimate trade north and south would be to make many.
1958
To the appeal of the annexationists for union with the United States . . . the movement for responsible government counterposed the idea of joining the Canadian Confederation, which even then was being shaped in London.