Dictionary entry

Anti-imperialism

Webster's Dictionary 1913

An′ti–im‐pe″ri‐al‐ism (?), n. Opposition to imperialism; — applied specif., in the United States, after the Spanish-American war (1898), to the attitude or principles of those opposing territorial expansion; in England, of those, often called Little Englanders, opposing the extension of the empire and the closer relation of its parts, esp. in matters of commerce and imperial defense. — An′ti–im‐pe″ri‐al‐ist, n. — An′ti–im‐pe′ri‐al‐is″tic (#), a.