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Baathist

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Baath +‎ -ist

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Baathist (comparative more Baathist, superlative most Baathist)

  1. Of or pertaining to Baathism or the Baath Party.

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Baathist (plural Baathists)

  1. A supporter of Baathism.
    • 1959, Swiss Review of World Affairs‎[1], page 27:
      Another Baathist, former Jordan Foreign Minister Abdullah Rimawi, is plowing a lonely furrow, and no one seems to want to follow him.
    • 1985, B. J. Odeh, Lebanon, dynamics of conflict: a modern political history, page 7:
      Also, in March 1963, the Syrian Baathists were able to seize power in a coup that toppled the 'separatists'.
    • 2008, Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Sammy Salama, Iraq's Armed Forces: An Analytical History:
      The Baathists were more ideologically motivated and believed that the Army should be made subservient to the Party, as they were aware that the military been the primaryforcebehind every regime change in Iraq since 1936.
    • 2016, Tanya Narozhna, W. Andy Knight, Female Suicide Bombings: A Critical Gender Approach, page 83:
      The second insurgency has been led by the ideological Baathists, or Saddam Hussein's loyalists and jihadi Salafis.

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