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单词 civism
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civismn.

/ˈsɪvɪz(ə)m/
Etymology: < French civisme, < Latin cīvis citizen: see -ism suffix. A well-known term of the French Revolution of 1789: although, according to Littré, not in the Dictionary of the Academy till 1835.
Principles of good citizenship.
a. originally and esp. Devotion or well-affected disposition to the order established by the French Revolution of 1789. certificate (card) of civism [French certificat de civisme] : an attestation that the holder was thus well-affected. Cf. incivism n.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > public-spiritedness > [noun] > in relation to specific order or system
civism1792
citizenism1796
1792 Hist. in Ann. Reg. 17 Suspicions against the intentions of the King and the civism of his guards.
1793 N. Vansittart Remarks on Fox's Speech 21 6000 persons arrested [in Paris] for not having Cards of Civism.
1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 28 976 A pretext..for suspecting the ‘civism’ (to revive that Jacobin word) of eminent citizens.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. v. vii. 339 At all turns, you need your ‘Certificate of Civism’.
1885 Times 15 Dec. 6 Here is the Jacobin certificate of civism in actual play.
b. transferred to the ancient Greek and Roman republics, and to the citizen principle generally.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > public-spiritedness > [noun]
civility1537
publicness1605
public spirit1649
public-spiritedness1652
citizenism1830
civism1832
1832 T. De Quincey Cæsars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 952/2 It might seem to throw some doubt..upon the sincerity, of his civism, that undoubtedly Augustus cultivated his kingly connexions.
1845 R. W. Hamilton Inst. Pop. Educ. v. 107.
1880 G. C. Warr in Academy 25 Sept. 216 That the Roman ‘civism’, the tradition of self-sacrifice for the public good, made the Roman people the rightful rulers of Europe.
c. figurative. Citizenship, fraternity.
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1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing I. Introd. 35 I wish them to consider in me the civisme of the arts and sciences [Fr. le civisme des arts et des sciences].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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