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metropolitanism|mɛtrəˈpɒlɪtənɪz(ə)m|
[f. metropolitan + -ism.]
Metropolitan spirit, ideas, or institutions.
1855R. R. Madden C'tess Blessington II. 174 In the exuberance of his metropolitanism, he had a sort of reverential feeling even for the stones of London. 1861J. S. Brewer Giraldi Cambrensis Op. (Rolls) I. Pref., The name Giraldus was bandied about from mouth to mouth, as the undoubted successor to the see of St. David's... The golden era of Metropolitanism had dawned on benighted..Cambria. 1883Century Mag. XXVI. 824 The architectural manifestations of metropolitanism. |