Meanings
- ChinaMarxismderogatorynot comparableFavoring a split or separation from the Party or the nation.
The Politburo had already met on 1 April to agree that the Nanking incident had been splittist and supportive of Teng Hsiao-p'ing.
1978, John King Fairbank, The Cambridge History of China, →ISBN, page 362
plural splittists
- ChinaderogatoryKoreaA separatist.
"Trouble. I'll tell you frankly, little Han, we have a lot of splittists here. You know what I mean by a splittist?" ¶ "Of course. People who want to split the Motherland."
2001, John Derbyshire, Fire From the Sun, →ISBN, page 211 more example
Our Party and the Government of the Republic have till now done all they can to check and frustrate the colonial enslavement policy of US imperialism towards Korea and the nation-splitting manoeuvres of the domestic and foreign splittists and achieve the independent, peaceful reunification of the country.
1974, Kim Il Sung, Answers to the Questions Raised by Secretary-general of Peru-Korea Institute of Culture and Friendship, page 7Synonyms: sectarian, separatist
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA separatist.
Origin
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