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localism|ˈləʊkəlɪz(ə)m|
[f. local a. + -ism.]
1. Attachment to a locality, esp. to the place in which one lives; limitation of ideas, sympathies, and interests growing out of such attachment; disposition to favour what is local. Also (with pl.), an instance of this state of mind.
1843Borrow Bible in Spain xxvii. (1872) 160, I have never seen the spirit of localism which is so prevalent throughout Spain more strong than at Saint James. a1852Webster Wks. (1877) II. 526, I am one of those who believe that our government is not to be destroyed by localisms, North or South. 1877S. Bowles in Merriam Life (1885) II. 428 Congress is simply an aggregate seething and struggling of a great number of localisms—rarely or never losing themselves in the stream of national or patriotic feeling. 1883Spectator 30 June 828 Agriculture is more weighted by what we may call the localism of labour than by any other single cause.
2. Something characteristic of a particular locality; a localizing feature; a local idiom, custom, or the like.
1823E. Moor (title) Suffolk Words and Phrases, or an attempt to collect the Lingual Localisms of that County. 1839C. Clark (title) John Noakes and Mary Styles... A Poem, exhibiting some of the most striking lingual localisms peculiar to Essex. 1850Freeman in Ecclesiologist X. 284 Architectural localisms, as illustrated by the churches of Northamptonshire and Leicestershire. 1858Almæ Matres 38 All talk scandal, gossip, localisms. 1897Saga-Bk. Viking Club Jan. 306 Brushing away many of the most interesting localisms in thought and language. |
