micronationalist
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From micronational + -ist.
Noun
[edit]micronationalist (plural micronationalists)
- One who believes in micronationalism.
- 1987, The Ethiopian Revolution and Its Impact on the Politics of the Horn of Africa:
- When micronationalists from Ethiopia label Menelik II's expansion as colonialism and participation in the scramble for Africa, they are simply becoming systematic magicians, or to give them respect, systematic empiricists.
- One who runs, or othwerise participates in, a micronation.
Adjective
[edit]micronationalist (not comparable)
- (dated) Of, or relating to a micronation; micronational.
- 1984, Peter J. Hempenstall, Noel Rutherford, Protest and Dissent in the Colonial Pacific:
- But the Mataungan Association significantly enlarged the scale of anti–colonial protest as well, becoming what one writer has called a micronationalist phenomenon.