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cisatlantic

[ sis-uht-lan-tik ]

adjective

  1. on this (the speaker's or writer's) side of the Atlantic.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of cisatlantic1

An Americanism dating back to 1775–85; cis- + Atlantic
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His Old World accent and reactionary politics might not have been sufficient to earn Niall Ferguson his cisatlantic celebrity, were it not for the demise of American intellectual conservatism, chronicled by Sam Tanenhaus and others.

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Our second, never to suffer Europe to meddle in cisatlantic affairs.”

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Could France have won his influence in her behalf, England could not have broken that rival power in America without an exhausting expenditure of men and treasure, and without leaders of a different stamp from the blockheads with whom she long continued to paralyze her Cisatlantic armies.

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Certainly the learning of these Lectures is unequalled, even by his former exhibitions in that line; and our Cisatlantic standard of attainment seems rather scanty beside this vast affluence.

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Americans often fancied that they noticed something American in Leigh Hunt's physique and manners, without knowing how near he came to owning a Cisatlantic birth.

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