postdictatorial
English edit
Etymology edit
From post- + dictatorial.
Adjective edit
postdictatorial (not comparable)
- After a dictatorship has ended.
- 1959, Tad Szulc, Twilight of the Tyrants, Henry Holt and Company, page 205:
- Rojas was expected to bring peace, prosperity, and even remedies for Colombia’s desperate social problems that still lurk—and perhaps more so in the present postdictatorial period than ever before—as the greatest danger to the nation’s long-range stability.
- 1977, Venezuela: The Democratic Experience, →ISBN, page 28:
- In practice, the four postdictatorial presidents have reflected a movement away from democratic-caesarist patterns of behavior.
- 1999, Idelber Avelar, The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 137:
- In postdictatorial Brazil, where of late the most complicitous forms of forgetting have thrived to the point of hegemonizing the polis and its institutions—determining, even legislatively, how the past is to be dealt with—to speak of any kind of forgetting, however active, can surely lead to a good deal of misunderstanding.
Spanish edit
Adjective edit
postdictatorial m or f (masculine and feminine plural postdictatoriales)