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tentism

noun

Etymology

From tent + -ism.

  1. derived from tentus
  2. derived from *tenta✻
  3. derived from tente
  4. inherited from tente
  5. formed as tentism — “tent + -ism”

Definitions

  1. The act of appealing to a specified group of voters.

    • “I am concerned about what I would regard as big tentism – this attempt to get everybody into the same fold. I think it is an attempt to create – in the nicest possible way – a one-party state.”

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for tentism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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