tocqueville
IPA: tˈoʊkvɪɫ
Root Word: Tocqueville
noun
- A commune of the Eure department, Normandy, France.
- A commune of the Manche department, Normandy, France.
- (fully de Tocqueville) A surname from French — famously held by:
- François-Hippolyte Clérel de Tocqueville (1797–1877), senator of the French Third Republic
- Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (1805–1859), French diplomat, political scientist, historian, and author of De la Démocratie en Amérique (two volumes, 1835–1840) and L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution (1856)
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Examples of "tocqueville" in Sentences
- Tocqueville had made a similar warning back in 1835.
- Tocqueville was realistic about freedom and democracy.
- I'm not aware of Tocqueville ever engaging in violence.
- He began a master of arts thesis on Alexis de Tocqueville.
- It is possible to have a much shorter citation of Tocqueville.
- Tocqueville was indeed a strong champion of liberty and freedom.
- De Tocqueville clearly states it in terms of American difference.
- In this case is absolutely aware of his intellectual debt to Tocqueville.
- Alexis de Tocqueville pointed that out very well in Democracy in America.
- Alexis de Tocqueville had observed, e are sleeping together on a volcano...