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quiet revolution

noun

Etymology

Likely coined in The Globe and Mail or the Montreal Gazette.

Definitions

  1. A major social or political change attained without violence or significant upheaval.

  2. A period of vast sociopolitical change in Quebec in the 1960s characterized by…

    A period of vast sociopolitical change in Quebec in the 1960s characterized by secularization, a rise of Quebec nationalism, and the development of a welfare state.

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