Etymology

Stirner

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Today it means: Max Stirner, the German philosopher and proponent of individualist anarchism. Full definition →

German Stirner
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  1. German · borrowed fromStirner
  2. English todayStirner

Borrowed from German Stirner, from Stirn (“forehead”) + -er.

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