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verkrampte
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verkrampte [fəˈkrɑmtə]
n (in South Africa)
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy)
a.  (during apartheid) an Afrikaner Nationalist who opposed any changes toward liberal trends in government policy, esp relating to racial questions
b.  (as modifier) verkrampte politics Compare verligte
[from Afrikaans (adj), literally: restricted]
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There were the verkramptes (constricted or narrow reactionaries), who were narrow-minded and insular, clinging to the past and engaged in witch-hunts against everything not traditional" (Giliomee 2003: 549).
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