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Bittereinders refers to those
Boers, the
whites in South Africa of mostly
Dutch descent, who refused to concede defeat to the victorious
British Empire during and after the
Second Boer War (1899-1901) and wished to conitinue the war against the British by any means possible.
The word is derived from the
Dutch language upon which the
Afrikaans language of the Boers (later known as
Afrikaners) is based.
The words
bitter einder (singular, the final "s" denotes plural) literally mean "bitter-ender" denoting someone who is "willing to fight to the " even unto death.
It could be used as another name for a "war party" (a faction within a political or militray group favoring the waging of war) or for any group which doesn't wish to diminish its "fighting spirit" wanting to fight it out to the "bitter end."
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