单词 | unionism |
释义 | unionismn. 1. Chiefly with capital initial. Cf. republicanism n. 3. a. Support for or advocacy of the maintenance of the parliamentary union between Great Britain and Ireland; the movement associated with this, spec. the policy or principles of the Liberal Unionists (see unionist n. 2a). Now historical.See also Liberal Unionism n. at liberal adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [noun] > principles or policies whiteboyism1777 Defenderism1795 United Irishism1800 republicanism1807 Orangeism1811 Rockism1824 repeal1830 unionism1831 whitefootism1832 West Britonism1841 Young Irelandism1846 Home Rule1858 Fenianism1866 Land-leaguism1881 nationalism1885 Sinn Feinism1907 partition1919 Ulsterization1977 1831 Age 30 Oct. 349/2 A Lord Mayor was to be chosen, Sir Peter Laurie ought to have been their selection, but..he had not hunted with them through the slough of unionism. 1886 Sat. Rev. 5 June 763/2 Unionism has to deal with an enemy perfectly unscrupulous. 1889 Mrs. Buxton in R. B. O'Brien Life C. S. Parnell (1898) I. 220 We talked a little about Home Rule and the future of Ireland—my Unionism getting very shaky. 1907 A. S. T. Griffith-Boscawen Fourteen Years Parl. 323 A plan of ‘devolution’ of Irish Government, which was neither Unionism nor Home Rule. 1921 Times 8 Jan. 11/3 As for ‘Unionism’, in its pre-war signification, it is dead, unless the whole Irish policy of the Government is a mockery and the Government of Ireland Act a scrap of paper. 2000 J. Smith Brit. & Ireland iv. 52 If Unionism in the south had lost its political and economic strength, what arguments could Unionists now reasonably deploy against Home Rule? b. Support for or advocacy of Northern Ireland remaining a devolved region of the United Kingdom; the movement associated with this, spec. the policy or principles of any of various Unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. ΚΠ 1921 Irish Times 25 Jan. The leaders of North-Eastern Unionism are conscious of their immense responsibilities. 1971 Guardian 22 Mar. 10/1 He will have to face the Ulster Unionist Council, representing grass-roots Unionism. 2000 S. McKay Northern Protestants 257 Unionists don't realise that all of the things which are good for unionism in the agreement will arrive when the executive is formed. 2010 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 22 Mar. 30 A fragmented Unionism suits Sinn Fein. 2. With capital initial. Support for or advocacy of the federal union between the U.S. states; esp. support for the Union side in the American Civil War (1861–5). Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > support of Union in Civil War unionism1832 1832 U.S. Tel. 30 Oct. Judge Smith: that patriarch of turncoats, into whose peaceful bosom the elect of Unionism are shortly to be folded. 1865 J. R. Lowell in N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 549 We do not mean to say that there is any very large amount of even latent Unionism at the South. 1883 American 6 92 The obstinate Unionism of the mountaineer farmers. 1903 W. D. Howells Lett. Home xii. 76 She is of a high old Southern family whose passive Unionism did not keep their fortunes from going down with the confederates' in the Civil War. 2010 S. D. Bowman At Precipice iv. 124 Neither Jackson nor Van Buren had moral objections to black bondage. Both much preferred stable Unionism to either abolitionist or state's rights extremism. 2013 Jrnl. Amer. Ethnic Hist. 32 143 Extralegal violence and the infamous family feuds..earned a negative reputation for the region [sc. Appalachian Kentucky] and, therefore, bad associations for Unionism. 3. The system, principles, or practice of trade unions; support for or advocacy of trade unions; = trade unionism n.business unionism, industrial unionism, tuxedo unionism: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > association of employers or employees > [noun] > trade union > trade unionism unionism1834 trade unionism1835 1834 Crisis 18 Jan. 164/1 The other case was that of a widow, whose two girls were discharged from their employment, because they smelt of Unionism. 1884 Brit. Almanac & Compan. 67 The growth of unionism among farm labourers. 1908 Painter & Decorator Dec. 730/1 The determination to root out unionism from every department of industry. 1976 F. Zweig New Acquisitive Society i. v. 65 White-collar unionism has grown over the last two or three decades much faster than manual workers' unionism. 1998 N.Y. Times 9 July a25/4 The civil rights movement fights over quotas, feminism has become political correctness, unionism institutionalized grabbiness. 4. In the Lutheran Church: worship, prayer, or collaboration with Christians of different denominations. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific political theories or doctrines > [noun] > unionism unionism1839 1839 Oberlin (Ohio) Evangelist 5 June 100/1 The church was in a cold backslidden state, and much prejudice had been excited against brother Day, by the cry of Perfectionism, Unionism, Disorganizer &c. 1843 Oberlin (Ohio) Evangelist 12 Apr. 60 Introduce the extravagances of Unionism into our churches, and we may as well dissolve them at once. 1917 Lutheran Witness 15 May 152/1 Requisites necessary to acquire and hold membership in Synod are as follows:—..2. Renunciation of unionism and syncretism of every description, such as, a. Serving congregations of mixed confession, as such, by ministers of the Church; b. Taking part in the services and sacramental rites of heterodox congregations or of such of mixed confession; c. Joining the heterodox in missionary efforts or in the publishing and distribution of literature. 1919 F. Bente Amer. Lutheranism I. 180 The Lutheran Church of America was destined to sink even deeper into the mire of indifferentism, unionism, and sectarianism. 2001 Washington Post (Nexis) 15 Dec. b9 A Minnesota pastor who accused Kieschnick of ‘unionism’ by praying with clergy outside the denomination. 5. gen. Combination into one body as a system of social, institutional, or political organization; union, unity; advocacy of this. ΚΠ 1845 E. Miall in Nonconformist 5 173 The gravest objections against congregational unionism. 1919 P. Grainger Let. 12 Mar. in All-round Man (1994) 42 The Britisher believes in the idea of unionism (i.e. unity, & sacrifice of the individual for the whole) & compromise, but is only able to accomplish it in each individual life..never in larger amalgamations, never in communities or politics. 2007 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 29 July 42 The party can't stand aside from the constitutional questions raised by the SNP victory. They need to develop a new unionism in which Scotland is more autonomous. 2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 15 Apr. a6/3 This I would call ‘unionism’, when people are fighting for the liquidation of their own nation, and absorption by another country. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1831 |
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