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particulaˈristic, a. [f. prec. + -ic: see -istic.] Pertaining to, characterized by, or upholding particularism (in any sense).
1881Fortn. Rev. Mar. 375 To overcome the particularistic tendencies of the single States. 1886C. P. Tiele in Encycl. Brit. XX. 369/1 Buddhism, Islâm, and Christianity were neither national nor particularistic. 1937T. Parsons Struct. Soc. Action iii. xv. 551 The whole Chinese social structure accepted and sanctioned by the Confucian ethics was a predominantly ‘particularistic’ structure of relationships. 1955M. Gluckman Custom & Conflict in Afr. v. 123 She also brings out the particularistic nature of their answer to the problem, what is man? 1956Jrnl. Theol. Stud. VII. 99 Both the universalistic and the particularistic strands in their teaching. 1964Gould & Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 489/1 He may decide to be particularistic, treating them ‘in accordance with their standing in some particular relationship to him or his collectivity, independently of the objects' subsumibility under a general norm’. 1970J. Cotler in I. L. Horowitz Masses in Lat. Amer. xii. 426 Through the..particularistic pattern in which juridical and political authorities are designated, the Pisac mestizos become political figures. 1972Science 9 June 1094/3 The differentiation of scholarship within a field into a variety of highly particularistic specialties reduces the potential for the type of behavior associated with intellectuality. 1974tr. Wertheim's Evolution & Revolution i. 51 Popular emancipation movements do not stress an abstract universalism as their main ideology, but rather strike a note of particularistic loyalties. So particulaˈristically adv.
1951Parsons & Shils Toward Gen. Theory Action 260 A specific situation vis-à-vis particularistically designated persons. 1963R. M. Hare Freedom & Reason ii. 20 The particularistically inclined non-naturalist. |