protagonismn.
/prə(ʊ)ˈtaɡənɪz(ə)m/, /prə(ʊ)ˈtaɡn̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /prəˈtæɡənəz(ə)m/, /proʊˈtæɡənəz(ə)m/ The advocacy or championing of a particular cause or idea.
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1909 N.Y. Evening Post 27 Nov. 6 The principal character..is gradually drawn into a protagonism of common sense, candour, and progress.
1937 Mind 46 511 This method..requires the experimenter to be protean in his factitious protagonism.
1986 Financial Times (Nexis) 17 Feb. 14 The transition also marks an end to the protagonism in political life of the armed forces which ousted Portugal's dictatorship in 1974.
2005 European Rep. (Nexis) 11 Nov. Barroso has tended towards passivity rather than protagonism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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