🔤 Adullamite

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URDU

باغی یا ناراض سیاسی رکن، اپنی ہی پارٹی سے الگ ہونے والا
🅰️ Roman Urdu:
baaghi / mukhalif siyasi rukan, Na-raaz shakhs
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ENGLISH

📚noun
adullamite
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PRONUNCIATION

Standard: əˈdʌləmaɪt/
Phonetic: /uh dul uh myt/
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DEFINITION

a political renegade or dissident who breaks away from their party (derived from the biblical Cave of Adullam)
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

The reform bill split the party when an adullamite group voted against it. Political commentators labeled the dissenting MP as a stubborn adullamite. The parliamentary adullamite faction formed an independent coalition. An adullamite refuses to follow party whips on key policy votes. History records the adullamite movement during 19th-century electoral reforms.
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SYNONYMS

renegade dissident rebel political insurgent defector

ANTONYMS

loyalist party conformist adherent
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