Jeffersonite


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Jef´fer`son`ite


n.1.(Min.) A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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(39) This disposition, already manifested in the late 1780s, created a political culture governed by a grammar of combat, which entailed a "politics of anxious extremes." (40) It fostered the intense employment and further construction of biblical politics, each side depicting the other as wrong-doing "Adamites" and "Jeffersonites." However, transcending the partisan nature of the discourse, it further constructed the United States as a biblical nation.
"Written in the Style of Antiquity": Pseudo-Biblicism and the Early American Republic, 1770-1830
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