antiempire

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antiempire (comparative more antiempire, superlative most antiempire)

(politics) Opposing an empire.
- 1998, Moira Ferguson, Animal Advocacy and Englishwomen, 1780-1900, page 102:
  Black Beauty is a new gendered text of empire, embedding an innovative discourse that is anticapture, anticruelty, antiwar, and antiempire yet shies from any critique of antediluvian feudal relations. Consequently, Sewell could not easily bring ...
- 2010, Karen Racine, Beatriz G. Mamigonian, The Human Tradition in the Atlantic World, 1500–1850, page 210:
  In light of these changes, it is tempting to label the period from 1783 to 1880 as “antiempire” because of the dampened enthusiasm for large-scale imperialist activities.

opposing an empire