A person who advocates for or supports annexation, particularly territorial expansion by a nation-state.
From annexion plus the suffix '-ist' meaning one who advocates, derived from Latin 'annectere' with Romance-language agent formation.
The 'annexionists' of the American South in the 1850s wanted to annex Cuba and Mexico to create a slave empire, but their imperial ambitions were blocked by the North's growing political power.
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