NOUN
- a member of the moderate republican party that was in power during the French Revolution; the Girondists were overthrown by their more radical rivals the Jacobins
How To Use Girondist In A Sentence
- I denounce the liberticide Brissot, the Girondist faction, the villainous committee of twenty-one in the National Assembly. The French Revolution - Volume 3
- The most moderate party, consisting of those who would sustain the throne, but limit its powers by a free constitution, retaining many of the institutions and customs which antiquity had rendered venerable, was called the _Girondist party_. Madame Roland, Makers of History
- With the Girondists, the last bulwark against the inbreaking tyranny fell. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
