Meaning Of The Word Manifest Destiny

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Manifest Destiny in American English
the 19th-cent. doctrine postulating the continued territorial expansion of the U.S. as its obvious destiny
the belief or doctrine, held chiefly in the middle and latter part of the 19th century, that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences

Manifest Destiny in British English
noun: (esp in the 19th-century US) the belief that the US was a chosen land that had been allotted the entire North American continent by God

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