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Juarista

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A follower of Benito Juárez during the period of resistance to the French occupation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

Examples

  • 2012 September, Patrick J. Kelly, The North American Crisis of the 1860s, William A. Blair (editor), The Journal of the Civil War Era, Volume 2, Issue 3, page 350, At Puebla, Mexico, a forty-five-hundred-man Juarista army under the command of thirty-three-year old Gen. Ignacio Zaragoza trounced a force of six thousand French troops moving inland toward Mexico City.

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Etymology

From Spanish juarista, from the surname Juárez + -ista, after Mexican resistance-leader and five-times president Benito Pablo Juárez García (1806–1872), known as Benito Juárez.