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idealogue - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

idealogue (plural idealogues)

  • One given to fanciful ideas or theories; someone who theorizes or speculates.
    • ✤ Government,
      If veritable and lawful, is not given
      By imposition of the foreign hand,
      Nor chosen from a pretty pattern-book
      Of some domestic idealogue who sits
      And coldly chooses empire, where as well
      He might republic.      1
  • Someone who espouses a particular ideology, particularly a political one.

Etymology

Compare French idéologue.

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

  1. 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Eighth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC: ↩

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