Baathist

comparative more Baathist · superlative most Baathist · alternative Bathist · alternative Ba'thist · alternative Baʻthist · alternative Ba'athist · alternative Baʻathist

1. Of or pertaining to Baathism or the Baath Party.

plural Baathists · alternative Bathist · alternative Ba'thist · alternative Baʻthist · alternative Ba'athist · alternative Baʻathist

1. A supporter of Baathism.

   Also, in March 1963, the Syrian Baathists were able to seize power in a coup that toppled the 'separatists'.

   1985, B. J. Odeh, Lebanon, dynamics of conflict: a modern political history, page 7

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   Another Baathist, former Jordan Foreign Minister Abdullah Rimawi, is plowing a lonely furrow, and no one seems to want to follow him.

   1959, Swiss Review of World Affairs, page 27

   The Baathists were more ideologically motivated and believed that the Army should be made subservient to the Party, as they were aware that the military been the primaryforcebehind every regime change in Iraq since 1936.

   2008, Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Sammy Salama, Iraq's Armed Forces: An Analytical History

   The second insurgency has been led by the ideological Baathists, or Saddam Hussein's loyalists and jihadi Salafis.

   2016, Tanya Narozhna, W. Andy Knight, Female Suicide Bombings: A Critical Gender Approach, page 83