particularist

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Even the most diehard particularist or defender of the nation state and its prerogatives should finally appreciate that the world's biggest economy can no longer afford to be held hostage by ever ongoing Russo-Ukrainian feuds.

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  1. One whose opinions and conduct are characterized by particularism, in any of its senses; specifically, one who seeks to promote the interests of individual members of a political confederation as against those of the whole; in recent German history, one who desired to preserve the individuality in laws, etc., of the states annexed to Prussia in 1866, or of those states under Prussian influence. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge and (in a less degree) the Prince of Wales are looked upon as friends of the Hanoverian particularists, and are said to be not too popular in certain circles at Berlin. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XLI. 17. The most rigid particularist could discern no violation either of the spirit or the letter of the Constitution. N. A. Rev., CXLII. 386.
  2. Pertaining to or characterized by particularism. Busch, unlike most caricaturists, devotes no attention to the princes, prelates or potentates engaged in the Kulturkampf or the particularist movement. Bookman, Sept., 1905, p. 13.

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  • All that seems tribal and particularist is explained away, and the spiritual aspect of every chapter—of every word almost—of the Torah is emphasized. —  Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria
  • The monarch who did the most for the importance of Bavaria was not some stubborn anti-German particularist, but Ludwig I, a man of pan-German mind and artistic sensibilities. —  Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf: Federalism as a Mask
  • The point he was driving at was that particularist struggles in places - what may seem bounded localities - are crucial to the development of socialist principles that can transcend localities. —  Kafila
  • Even the most diehard particularist or defender of the nation state and its prerogatives should finally appreciate that the world's biggest economy can no longer afford to be held hostage by ever ongoing Russo-Ukrainian feuds. —  The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely
  • In order to understand Jews 'relationship to ideas of liberty, it is important to understand that Judaism has both universalist and particularist strands. —  Latest News from Ekklesia
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  1. = French particulariste = German particularista; as particular + -ist.
 

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