Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being clannish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a tendency to associate with only a select group.
- noun a tendency to associate with only one's own clan; the propensity to display the sentiments, habits, and prejudices of one's own clan.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the state of being
clannish
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tendency to associate with only a select group
Etymologies
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Examples
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Their so-called clannishness, their solidarity, has many exceptions.
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Family ties superimposed on clan clannishness, which is the blood heritage of the Highland Scotch, made it impossible for him to feel otherwise.
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The latter are chiefly an expression of the predatory impulse simply; the former are more specifically an expression of that heritage of clannishness which is so large a feature in the temperament of the predatory barbarian.
The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions
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The latter are chiefly an expression of the predatory impulse simply; the former are more specifically an expression of that heritage of clannishness which is so large a feature in the temperament of the predatory barbarian.
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Our so-called "clannishness" is not the issue here.
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"clannishness" but also on the "licentiousness" of the Jewish population, manifesting itself in congregating on the streets, and similar grave crimes.
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Scotch of long ago, it is true, but none the less Scotch, with a thousand traits, to say nothing of their tricks of speech and woolly utterance, which nothing less than their Scotch clannishness could have preserved to this late day.
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Then it was that that clannishness, which was his to so extraordinary a degree, asserted itself.
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It's large scale corporate enterprise and clannishness that aren't very compatible.
Culture, Capitalism, and Freedom, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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If he had scant sympathy with their social clannishness, he was with them in fighting discrimination.
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