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ˈknow-ˌnothingism
[f. prec. + -ism.]
1. The profession of knowing nothing, the practice of wilful ignorance; the doctrine of agnostics, agnosticism.
1866Reader 15 Dec. 1007 He must have long felt that the ignorance which is sedulously kept up of practical physiology adequately reflects the ‘knownothingism’ of middle-class Englishmen. 1871R. H. Hutton Ess. I. 27 A sort of know-nothingism, or Agnosticism, or belief in an unknown and unknowable God. 1881Standard 7 Feb., The age is..face to face..with Agnosticism or Know-nothingism.
2. The political doctrine of the American Know-nothings: see know-nothing A. 2.
1854W. G. Simms Southward Ho! 252 Know-Nothingism had not then become a fixed fact in the political atmosphere. a1860New York Times (Bartlett Amer.), The Know-Nothings have had their day... The earth hath bubbles, and Know-Nothingism was one of them. 1885Lalor & Mason tr. Von Holst's Const. Hist. U.S. 112 Know-Nothingism had very ardent partisans in the southern states. |