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  • noun Plural form of republicanism.

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  • Other men crowed or fumbled after petty and pinch-beck ends; impossible rhetorical republicanisms; vain senatorial prestiges;

    The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908

  • When I say _avoids the affectations of republicanisms_, I do not mean the points connected with principles, but those vulgar and underbred pretensions of ultra equality and liberalism, which, while they mark neither manliness nor a real appreciation of equal rights almost uniformly betray a want of proper training and great ignorance of the world.

    Recollections of Europe James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • The safest rule for an American, and certainly the one that good taste would dictate, is to be very sparing in his use of everything of this sort, since he cannot be always certain of the proper usages of the different countries he visits, and, so long as he avoids unnecessary affectations of republicanisms, and, if a gentleman, this he will do without any effort, simplicity is his cue.

    Recollections of Europe James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • Contemporary conservatives view themselves as conservatives in the everlasting tradition of the Founding Fathers who put forth a set of political ideas, republicanisms, which all groups, even today's extreme liberals, have made use of and not other more confusing terms as libertarian, right-wing,

    RVABlogs 2009

  • Typical republicanisms: drum up fear in the idiots, throw around a few words without substance (like socialism and nationalize) to help drum up the fear, and they will vote.

    LJWorld.com stories: News 2009

  • He used to come and sit or stand by my fireside, talking vivaciously and eloquently with me about literature and life, his own national characteristics and mine, with such kindly endurance of the many rough republicanisms wherewith I assailed him, and such frank and amiable assertion of all sorts of English prejudices and mistakes, that I understood his countrymen infinitely the better for him, and was almost prepared to love the intensest Englishman of them all, for his sake.

    Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

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