Root-and-branch Definition

adjective
Total, thorough, sweeping, complete, radical, drastic.
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adverb
Totally, completely.
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Origin of Root-and-branch

  • From the Bible, Malachi 4:1 - "For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch." Used as a title for the Root and Branch Petition presented to the Long Parliament on December 11, 1640.

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Root-and-branch Sentence Examples

  • As a member of the Duma he attained a certain notoriety by impassioned speeches and appeals for root-and-branch reform, but he was never conspicuous for steady work or constructive statesmanship. When the first Revolutionary Government was formed people were astonished to hear that Kerensky had been nominated Minister of Justice.

  • He belonged to the Root and Branch party, and spoke in favour of the petition of the London citizens for the abolition of episcopacy on the 9th of February 1641, and pressed upon the House the Root and Branch Bill in May.

  • Burke's vital error was his inability to see that a root and branch revolution was, under the conditions, inevitable.

  • Eric Williams, author of Capitalism and Slavery, argued that colonialism had fertilized every root and branch of industrial capitalism.

  • He attached himself to the "possibilist" group of the socialist party, the section opposed to the root-and-branch measures of Jules Guesde.

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