All 14 Uses of

republic
in
One Hundred Years of Solitude

Colonel Aureliano Buendia was alive, but apparently he had stopped harassing the government of his country and had joined with the victorious federalism of other republics of the Caribbean.†
Chpt 8 *

republics = governmental systems in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws

He set up a table and a chair that he had bought from Jacob, nailed up on the wall the shield of the republic that he had brought with him, and on the door he painted the sign: Magistrate.†
Chpt 3

He refused the Order of Merit, which the President of the Republic awarded him.†
Chpt 6

Before taking the signatures, the personal delegate of the president of the republic tried to read the act of surrender aloud, but Colonel Aureliano Buendia was against it.†
Chpt 9

Then, when he rejected the Order of Merit awarded him by the president of the republic, even his most bitter enemies filed through the room asking him to withdraw recognition of the armistice and to start a new war.†
Chpt 9

The pretext was offered, in fact, when the president of the republic refused to award any military pensions to former combatants, Liberal or Conservative, until each case was examined by a special commission and the award approved by the congress.†
Chpt 9

For the first time he left the rocker that Ursula had bought for his convalescence, and, walking about the bedroom, he dictated a strong message to the president of the republic.†
Chpt 9

That the leading lady of a Spanish company passing through the capital had been kidnapped by a band of masked highwaymen and on the following Sunday she had danced in the nude at the summer house of the president of the republic.†
Chpt 10

What made him most indignant was the word that the president of the republic himself planned to be present at the ceremonies in Macondo in order to decorate him with the Order of Merit.†
Chpt 11

Such was the vehemence with which he made the threat that the president of the republic canceled his trip at the last moment and sent the decoration with a personal representative.†
Chpt 11

The president of the republic sent him a telegram of condolence in which he promised an exhaustive investigation and paid homage to the dead men.†
Chpt 12

After the burial he drew up and personally submitted to the president of the republic a violent telegram, which the telegrapher refused to send.†
Chpt 12

The last veterans of whom he had word had appeared photographed in a newspaper with their faces shamelessly raised beside an anonymous president of the republic who gave them buttons with his likeness on them to wear in their lapels and returned to them a flag soiled with blood and gunpowder so that they could place it on their coffins.†
Chpt 12

The indolence of the people was in contrast to the voracity of oblivion, which little by little was undermining memories in a pitiless way, to such an extreme that at that time, on another anniversary of the Treaty of Neerlandia, some emissaries from the president of the republic arrived in Macondo to award at last the decoration rejected several times by Colonel Aureliano Buendia, and they spent a whole afternoon looking for someone who could tell them where they could find one of his descendants.†
Chpt 17

Definitions:

(1) (republic as in: the country is a republic)
of a system of government in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws; or someone in favor of such a form of government
(2) (meaning too common or rare to warrant focus)
meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:

As a proper noun, the word form Republican is commonly used to describe one of the major U.S. political parties. It is and has been used by many other organizations such as The Irish Republican Army.