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Weimar (adj.)
in reference to the pre-1933 democratic government of Germany, 1932, from name of city in Thuringia where German constitution was drawn up in 1919. The place name is a compound of Old High German
wih
"holy" +
mari
"lake" (see
mere
(n.)).