civism

• “Buonaparte armed himself accordingly with an authenticated certificate as to the posts he had held, and the period during which he had held them, and with another as to his "civism" -- the phrase used at that time to designate the quality of friendliness to the Revolution.”

  The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)

• “We oblige [21101] teachers, male and female, to present certificates of civism, that is to say, of Jacobinism.”

  The French Revolution - Volume 3

• “I mean, all of this is expressing a kind of civism that we have in our country, a faith in the country that is actually performed on a football field, of all places.”

  George Washington�s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century

• “Is it the gabacho culture to not get over things, or does this country not have enough culture and this tragedy now is part of American civism?”

  The Huffington Post: Gustavo Arellano: Ask A Mexican!: Is "Mexican" an Offensive Word?

• “Civilisation can only be with civism and its crash could never be for the benefit of mankind.”

  Think Progress » William J. Fallon: Wrong Man For The Job

• “The only surprise I expect in the Llanos is in Portuguesa where the governor has some civism left in her and where the democratic left tradition of past eras might come back to Acarigua and Guanare.”

  Venezuela Electoral predictions: Final

• “I recollect the steward telling my grandmother that she might live at Grandvilliers in complete security, because her corn was as good as a certificate of civism.”

  Father Goriot

• “A contempt for religion or decency has been considered as the test of an attachment to the government; and a gross infraction of any moral or social duty as a proof of civism, and a victory over prejudice.”

  A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners

• “Indications that may serve to distinguish suspicious persons, and those to whom it will be proper to refuse certificates of civism:”

  A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners

• “And some of the small men who performed as his jackals, having discovered that the captain was looking for a share in their plunder, had thought proper to treat him, his commission, and even his civism, with extreme contempt.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844

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