Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The civic spirit or civic condition; citizenship and equal rights and duties for all, as a principle of civil organization and government.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The principle of civil government.
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- noun The
principle ofcivil government .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Its objects were the training of the youth, the future electorate of England, in the doctrines of Imperialism, Constitutionalism and sound civicism, as understood by the intellectual Conservatives.
The Fortunate Youth 1914
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Its objects were the training of the youth, the future electorate of England, in the doctrines of Imperialism, Constitutionalism and sound civicism, as understood by the intellectual Conservatives.
The Fortunate Youth William John Locke 1896
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