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Conservative   /kənsˈərvətɪv/   Listen
adjective
Conservative  adj.  
1.
Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
2.
Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.
3.
Of or pertaining to a political party which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government, as the Conservative party in England; contradistinguished from Liberal and Radical. "We have always been conscientiously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative, party."
Conservative system (Mech.), a material system of such a nature that after the system has undergone any series of changes, and been brought back in any manner to its original state, the whole work done by external agents on the system is equal to the whole work done by the system overcoming external forces.


noun
Conservative  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver. "The Holy Spirit is the great conservative of the new life."
2.
One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; opposed to revolutionary or radical.
3.
(Eng. Hist.) A member of the Conservative party.





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"Conservative" Quotes from Famous Books



... with us, you should say. Giovanni is a specimen of the furious Conservative, who hates change and has a cold chill at the word 'republic' Do you call ...
— Saracinesca • F. Marion Crawford
... by the present volume is not entirely unoccupied. One of the earliest publications in this line is an anonymous English work, very dignified and conservative. The speeches it furnishes are painstaking, but a trifle heavy, and savor so much of English modes of expression, as well as thought and customs, as to be poorly adapted to this country. Two works have appeared in this country, also, one ...
— Toasts - and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say - the Right Thing in the Right Way • William Pittenger
... theories and existing institutions. The constructive thinker Rousseau was not less aggressive, but he stands apart and opposed, by his hostility to modern civilisation. Thirdly, we must distinguish the school of Economists, also reformers and optimists, but of more conservative temper than the ...
— The Idea of Progress - An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth • J. B. Bury
... grandmother,' returned Maulevrier, 'and I believe Hammond calls himself a Conservative, and means to vote ...
— Phantom Fortune, A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... The Alstons were conservative, clung to the ways of their parents. This was partly due to inheritance—mother and father were New Englanders—and partly to a reserved quality, a timid shyness, that marked Lorry who, as Aunt Ellen ...
— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner


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