quislingist

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adjective

That is collaborating with an occupying enemy.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

quislingist1

adjectivequislingist (not comparable)
  1. not comparableAlternative letter-case form of Quislingist.

    The Nazis have shown particular anger and indignation against the Slavs because they have not thrown up any native quislingist movements.

    1943, William Ebenstein, The Nazi State, page 335
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    He went to Berlin on December 5th, to report a growing resentment in the Norwegian schools against the minority of pupils who had accepted the quislingist impositions. Disorder was spreading in every Norwegian town and village.

    1941, The Contemporary Review - Volume 159, page 100

    This was roughly one month after Nazism's "New Era" had been inaugurated by the formation of the quislingist shadow-government, composed of so-called "commissarial councillors" under German control.

    1943, Bjarne Höye, Trygve M. Ager, The Fight of the Norwegian Church Against Nazism, page 9
nounquislingist (plural quislingists)

plural quislingists

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Quislingist.

    The quislingists however, suffered a defeat at the hands of the doctors.

    1941, Sir Ronald Storrs, Philip Perceval Graves, A Record of the War - Volume 8, page 186
    2 more examples

    Time bombs had been placed in the East and West Railway stations where the quislingists from all over the country who had come to Oslo for the ceremony were just about to take their trains to go home.

    1942, The American-Scandinavian review - Volume 30, page 77

    A German-appointed mayor was seriously wounded and a large number of quislingists wearing Nazi badges were beaten up in other parts of Belgium.

    1943, News from Belgium and the Belgian Congo, page 24

Quislingist2

adjectiveQuislingist (not comparable)

alternative quislingist

  1. datednot comparableThat is collaborating with an occupying enemy.

    Norwegian Church leaders have flatly rejected suggestions" by the Quislingist regime that the Church join the anti-Bolshevist crusade,

    1941, ONA News Bulletin - Volume 2
    2 more examples

    Terboven then issued his decree of Sept. 25 declaring the King of Norway deposed, dissolving all political parties except Nasjonal Sanding, and setting up a Quislingist administration.

    1941, Bulletin of International News - Volume 18, Issues 1-20, page 686

    The shortage of Quislingist clergymen in Norway is becoming so critical that Nazi authorities are offering pulpits to school teachers, according to a wireless message received by Religious News Service.

    1943, The Living Church - Volume 107, page 38
nounQuislingist (plural Quislingists)

plural Quislingists · alternative quislingist

  1. datedA traitor who collaborates with an occupying enemy.

    A third Quislingist was an editor who had for a long time played quite an important role in Norwegian publishing circles.

    1945, David Abrahamsen, Men, Mind and Power, page 48
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    It is recorded that in that attack the Arabs were aided by political quarrels and even by traitors among the Christians; for instance one Maurontius, a rich man of Arles, appeared in the role of a French Quislingist.

    1943, John Patrick MacCormac, This Time for Keeps - Volume 41, page 95

    On another occasion, a Quislingist became enraged at the size of a collection taken up in one of the churches served by a loyal clergyman.

    1943, The Link - Volume 1, Issues 1-8, page 35

    The building of the Royal Norwegian automobile Club is occupied by the commander of the German troops in Norway, Col. Gen. Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, who, it is rumored, refused to allow one Quislingist in his residence.

    2013, Richard Overy, New York Times Book of World War II 1939-1945

Origin

quislingist · adjective, noun

From quisling + -ist.

Full word history & related roots →

Quislingist · adjective, noun

From Quisling + -ist.

Full word history & related roots →
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