Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The socialism advocated by the Fabian Society (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun British the principles and beliefs of or similar to those of the Fabian Society, advocating socialism to be established by gradual reforms within the law.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun socialism to be established by gradual reforms within the law
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It gives a lot of helpful definitions of the "isms" your children will need to know, from communism to fabianism to feminism and many more.
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These people, combined with others of the Victorian era in other movements called socialism, liberalism, fabianism, materialism, existentialism, and more, sought to replace the family and the Biblical mandates to do good to others, with a state that people would look to as authority.
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These people, combined with others of the Victorian era in other movements called socialism, liberalism, fabianism, materialism, existentialism, and more, sought to replace the family and the Biblical mandates to do good to others, with a state that people would look to as authority.
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True, more serious loss was often averted by the facility with which the Captain turned from one scheme to another, happily forgetful of orders he had given and which were never carried out; and by the invincible fabianism of the Highland farmer, who, listening with gravest attention to the Captain's orders delivered in the most definite and impressive terms, would make reply, "Yess, yess indeed, I know; she will be attending to it immediately -- tomorrow, or fery soon whateffer."
Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail Ralph Connor 1898
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