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particularism

noun

Etymology

From particular + -ism, after French particularisme.

  1. derived from particula
  2. derived from particularis
  3. derived from particuler
  4. derived from particuler
  5. inherited from particuler
  6. suffixed as particularism — “particular + ism”

Definitions

  1. An exclusive focus on a particular area, group, sect, etc.

  2. The principle that only certain people are chosen by God for salvation.

  3. The principle that individual states, races of a federation, etc., may act independently…

    The principle that individual states, races of a federation, etc., may act independently of a central authority.

    • Despite the dominance of Castile and the stream of centralizing measures flowing from the new capital in Madrid, Aragonese particularism continued to make itself felt right up to the early eighteenth century.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA