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Confucians | Confucian

Confucians meaning

plural of Confucian

Using Confucians

  • The main meaning on this page is: plural of Confucian
  • In the example corpus, confucians often appears in combinations such as: confucians who, many confucians.

Context around Confucians

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
  • Position in the sentence: 6 start, 3 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

dubbed 1× overall 1× new 1×

Often after:

suffered 1× continued 1× believed 1× proclaim 1×

Sentence patterns with Confucians

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

ages many confucians continued to 1× directly against confucians who believed 1× enthusiast new confucians proclaim the 1× like confucians they hired 1× many confucians also realized 1× notably the confucians who believed 1× of these confucians suffered and 1× overall confucians believed governments 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

like confucians they 1× many confucians also 1× nonetheless throughout the 1× overall confucians believed 1× the most enthusiast 1× the term confucian 1×

Common sentence endings:

and yuan dynasties 1× conviction and action 1× in different degrees 1× influences in china 1× not be indiscriminate 1× own ethical ideals 1×

Words around Confucians

Just before it in the word index:

confucianists 3 confucianist 4 confucianism 72 confucian 98 confronts 224 confronting 538

Just after it in the word index:

confucius 125 confusable 1 confuse 278 confused 1.690 confuses 43 confusing 839

Similar in corpus frequency:

aakash 12 aanholt 12 aardwolf 12 abadan 12 abati 12 abcc 12

Corpus analysis for Confucians

  • In this selection, "confucians" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, dubbed, overall, new, suffered, continued and believed stand out and add context to how "confucians" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include ages many confucians continued to and directly against confucians who believed. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "confucians" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with confucians

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Many of these Confucians suffered and sometimes died because of their conviction and action. (14 words)

Nonetheless, throughout the ages, many Confucians continued to fight against unrighteous superiors and rulers. (14 words)

Many Confucians also realized that loyalty and filial piety have the potential of coming into conflict with one another. (19 words)

Longer example sentences

The term "Confucian" is rather ill-defined in this context—many self-dubbed Confucians in fact rejected tenets of what was known as "the Way of Confucius," and were disorganized, unlike the later Confucians of the Song and Yuan dynasties. (40 words)

This advocacy of impartiality was a target of attack by the other Chinese philosophical schools, most notably the Confucians who believed that while love should be unconditional, it should not be indiscriminate. (32 words)

The most enthusiast New Confucians proclaim the uniqueness and superiority of Confucian Chinese culture, and have generated some popular sentiment against Western cultural influences in China. (26 words)

Example sentences (9)

The term "Confucian" is rather ill-defined in this context—many self-dubbed Confucians in fact rejected tenets of what was known as "the Way of Confucius," and were disorganized, unlike the later Confucians of the Song and Yuan dynasties.

In this, he argued directly against Confucians who believed that it was natural and correct for people to care about different people in different degrees.

Like Confucians, they hired out their services not only for gain, but also in order to realize their own ethical ideals.

Many Confucians also realized that loyalty and filial piety have the potential of coming into conflict with one another.

Many of these Confucians suffered and sometimes died because of their conviction and action.

Nonetheless, throughout the ages, many Confucians continued to fight against unrighteous superiors and rulers.

Overall, Confucians believed governments should place more emphasis on li and rely much less on penal punishment when they govern.

The most enthusiast New Confucians proclaim the uniqueness and superiority of Confucian Chinese culture, and have generated some popular sentiment against Western cultural influences in China.

This advocacy of impartiality was a target of attack by the other Chinese philosophical schools, most notably the Confucians who believed that while love should be unconditional, it should not be indiscriminate.

Common combinations with confucians

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "confucians" in a sentence?
An example: "The term "Confucian" is rather ill-defined in this context—many self-dubbed Confucians in fact rejected tenets of what was known as "the Way of Confucius," and were disorganized, unlike the later Confucians of the Song and Yuan dynasties." This page contains 9 example sentences with the word "confucians" from authentic English texts.
What does "confucians" mean?
Confucians means: plural of Confucian
How many example sentences with "confucians" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 9 example sentences with "confucians", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.