archimperialist

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

arch- +‎ imperialist

Noun[edit]

archimperialist (plural archimperialists)

  1. A strong supporter of imperialism.
    • 2007 November 29, Janet Maslin, “A Scramble for Power and Treasure in South Africa”, in New York Times[1]:
      If the archimperialist Rudyard Kipling, the young Mohandas K. Gandhi, tribal leaders and Afrikaner supremacists could agree on anything about the war's consequences, it was, in Mr. Meredith's view, this: The machinations behind the making of South Africa would create patriotic fervors even worse than the ones they supplanted.