snobismen.
/snəʊˈbiːzmə/ = snobbism n.
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the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun] > snobbery
snobbism1845
snobbishness1846
snobbiness1851
snobbery1903
snobisme1913
elitism1956
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [noun] > parvenu or imitator of upper classes > quality or condition of
snobbery1843
snobbism1845
snobbishness1846
snobbiness1851
parvenuism1852
parvenudom1872
snobisme1913
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [noun] > parvenu or imitator of upper classes > instance of
snobbery1866
snobbism1884
snobisme1913
1913 E. Marsh in S. Hynes Edwardian Turn of Mind (1968) ix. 343 I went with Denis to the Ballet... It's delicious, I went thoroughly meaning to dislike it, so it isn't snobisme on my part.
1920 A. Huxley Let. 4 Mar. (1969) 182 What you must go and see in Paris is the Cirque Medrano... It's become rather a snobisme to go.
1931 Punch 23 Sept. 334 For a womanly yet talented woman of good family, with enough English snobisme to relish Society and enough Irish irresponsibility to take its awful procedure lightly.
1958 Spectator 18 July 86/2 The one-eyed monster..? Oh dear, must that particular snobbisme be perpetuated?
1968 J. M. White Nightclimber vii. 46 Always marvellous, that English nation, compounded equally of the Bible and Snobisme.
1977 T. Heald Just Desserts vii. 145 It was undrinkable... No ludicrous snobisme about it being an English wine, could possibly persuade any normal palate of anything else.
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