Meaning of macdonaldite | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing barium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.
2. Someone who was loyal to Ramsay MacDonald, especially after he split from the Labour Party in 1931.

Examples

“It is typically a vein-forming mineral associated with macdonaldite, opal, and witherite.”

“He had been, as she says, 'a great MacDonaldite.'”

“Morrison, a MacDonaldite up to October 1931, later resorted to outright fiction in order to present himself as a leading anti-MacDonaldite during the August crisis.”

“Circumstances had something to do with the slackening of his partisan activities (in 1931 he was a MacDonaldite and ceased to be a member of a political party); but it was characteristic of him that the only cause which held his unwavering allegiance was that of Parliamentary democracy, which he understood to be a noble and historic manner of conducting politics, reaching decisions and digesting the differences characteristic of a modern European society.”

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