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Noun Liberal Neoconservative Adjective Neo Conservative  A Espousing Political

Title neo-conservative
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
neo·con·ser·va·tive
 \\ˌnē-ō-kən-ˈsər-və-tiv\\ noun
 DATE  1952
: a former liberal espousing political conservatism
• neo·con·ser·va·tism 
 \\-və-ˌti-zəm\\ noun
• neoconservative adjective
English Etymology
neo-conservative
  also neoconservative; used in the modern sense by 1979:
   "My Republican vote [in the 1972 presidential election] produced little shock waves in the New York intellectual community. It didn't take long - a year or two - for the socialist writer Michael Harrington to come up with the term "neoconservative" to describe a renegade liberal like myself. To the chagrin of some of my friends, I decided to accept that term; there was no point calling myself a liberal when no one else did." [Irving Kristol, "Forty Good Years," "The Public Interest," Spring 2005] The term is attested from 1960, but it originally often was applied to Russell Kirk and his followers, who would be philosophically opposed to the modern neocons.
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7
neoconservative
neo·con·ser·va·tive 7ni:EukEn5sE:vEtivNAmE7ni:oukEn5sE:rvEtiv / adjective   (politics 政) relating to political, economic, religious, etc. beliefs that return to traditional conservative views in a slightly changed form
   新保守主义者的,新保守派的(在政治、经济、宗教等信仰方面转向传统保守主义但形式稍有区别)
 neo·con·ser·va·tive (also neo·connoun
Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged
neo·conservative
\"ˌ\ noun
Etymology: ne- + conservative
: a former liberal espousing political conservatism
• neo·conservatism \"ˌ\ noun
• neoconservative adjective

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