distributismn.
/dɪsˈtrɪbjʊtɪz(ə)m/ The theory or practice of the ‘distributive state’ (see distributive adj.); = agrarianism n. 1.
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agrarianism1796
distributivism1915
distributism1926
1926 G. K. Chesterton Outl. Sanity vi. 224 Several things that may bring us a stage nearer to Distributism.
1933 T. S. Eliot Use of Poetry iv. 73 Wordsworth then proceeds to expound a doctrine which nowadays is called distributism.
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diˈstributist adj. and n.
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distributive1912
distributist1918
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agrarian1795
distributionist1836
distributist1918
1918 Irish Theol. Q. Jan. 102 Industrialism versus the distributist state—return to agriculture and handicrafts.
1926 G. K. Chesterton Outl. Sanity i. 30 Disquisitions throwing doubt on the detailed perfection of a Distributist State.
1926 G. K. Chesterton Outl. Sanity vi. 224 I do not claim that all Distributists would agree with me.
1953 Universe 31 July 6/4 It is Distributist to advance schemes of real co-operation among owner-producers.
1964 Eng. Stud. 45 (Suppl.). 214 It was Chesterton the Distributist and advocate of ‘three acres and a cow’.
diˈstributivism n. (rare).
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agrarianism1796
distributivism1915
distributism1926
1915 E. Barker Polit. Thought in Eng. viii. 223 Mr. Belloc's Distributivism.
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