单词 | mass movement |
释义 | > as lemmasmass movement mass movement n. (a) a large body of people engaged in the pursuit of a particular (esp. political) aim; the activities of such a body; a social trend or impulse common to a large number of people; (b) a migration or displacement of a large number of people or animals. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > [noun] > tendency, trend, or belief of the masses mass movement1854 1854 in G. D. H. Cole & A. W. Filson Brit. Working Class Movements (1967) 419 The funds collected shall be applied as follows:—a. To support all towns and places..that recognize the Mass Movement now, or may hereafter do so. 1897 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 3 344 They are cultivating mass sympathies and drilling themselves in mass movements. 1927 D. H. Lawrence Let. 11 July (1932) 684 They [sc. the Germans] are capable of mass-movement. 1935 Discovery Oct. 292/1 Occasional mass-movements, like those of the lemmings of Scandinavia. 1967 H. Arendt Origins Totalitarianism (new ed.) x. 313 The decisive differences between nineteenth-century mob organizations and twentieth-century mass movements are difficult to perceive. 1986 N. DeLange Judaism i. 16 This period saw the greatest mass movement of population that the Jewish world has ever known. < as lemmas |
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