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Particularism   Listen
noun
Particularism  n.  
1.
A minute description; a detailed statement. (R.)
2.
(Theol.) The doctrine of particular election.
3.
(German Politics) Devotion to the interests of one's own kingdom or province rather than to those of the empire.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Particularism" Quotes from Famous Books



... Chamber of Accounts being at the same time created to deal with finance. These efforts at centralisation of authority were undoubtedly for the good of the country as a whole, but such was the intensity of provincial jealousy and particularism that they were bitterly ...
— History of Holland • George Edmundson

... repositories of executive power in this country were the provincial governors. Being the point of tangency and hence of irritation between imperial policy and colonial particularism, these officers incurred a widespread unpopularity that was easily generalized into distrust of their office. So when Jefferson asserted in his Summary View, in 1774, that the King "is no more than the chief officer of the people, appointed by the ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin



Words linked to "Particularism" :   focusing, focussing, centering, particularistic, focus



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