Word Meanings - CARPETBAGGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865).

• Unitarianize
  To change or turn to Unitarian views.
• SEEKSORROW
  One who contrives to give himself vexation. [Archaic.] Sir P. Sidney.
• Aftergrowth
  A second growth or crop, or (metaphorically) development.
• Afterward
  At a later or succeeding time.
• Contempt
  The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
• Privateer
  An armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy. See Letters of marque, under Marque.
• Southernmost
  Farthest south.
• Unitary
  Of or pertaining to a unit or units; relating to unity; as, the unitary method in arithmetic.
• AFTERDAMP
  An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.
• STATESOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to give or maintain
• Afterguard
  The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails.
• Afterwise
  Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late.
• Contemptibility
  The quality of being contemptible; contemptibleness.
• Privateered
  of Privateer
• Southernwood
  A shrubby species of wormwood (Artemisia Abrotanum) having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer.
• AFTERDINNER
  The time just after dinner. "An after-dinner's sleep." Shak. [Obs.] -- a.
• Advancement
  The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning.
• After-image
  The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.

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