[f. prec. + -IST.] One who aims at or advocates annexation.
[c. 1845. Used in U.S. of the ‘annexation’ of Texas.]
1844. Morning Chron., 16 April, 2/4. If the Annexationists return a [presidential] candidate, the chances are in favour of annexation within the next eighteen months.
1860. W. Russell, Diary in Ind., II. 251. To regard with suspicion and dislike the policy of the Annexationists.
1860. Sat. Rev., No. 248. 98/1. The Belgian people have met the appeals and rebuked the intrigues of French annexationists.
b. attrib. or adj.
1862. J. M. Ludlow, Hist. U. S., 209. The great annexationist majority were almost all pro-slavery men.
1880. Daily Tel., 19 June, 5/5. Before the Congress of Berlin we denounced the annexationist schemes of Greece as unjustifiable.
