privatisticadj.

1952 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 46 581 Fauchille had treated the problems of territory under the privatistic title: Les Biens.

1970 C. A. Reich Greening of Amer. x. 284 ‘Human nature’ was not necessarily always privatistic, grasping, competitive, materialistic.

1978 T. Honoré Tribonian 37 They were trained largely in private law..and imperial constitutions, let alone criminal and public law, had little part to play in legal education. The privatistic outlook of these men is likely to be reflected in the output of constitutions.

1989 Church Times 24 Feb. 6/5 In their clearly dualistic, individualistic and privatistic focus, they have had a role of some importance, she thinks, in the formation of the crisis.

1970 J. J. Shapiro tr. J. Habermas Toward Rational Society vi. 121 Student activists are less privatistically oriented to professional careers and future families than other students.

2001 J. B. Elshtain in I. Carter & M. Ricciardi Freedom, Power, & Polit. Morality viii. 126 Individuals conceived as self-interested persons who have a choice between responding self-interestedly or altruistically, but in either instance they are responding privatistically.