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third way, n.
Brit. |ˌθəːd ˈweɪ|, U.S. |ˈˌθərd ˈweɪ|
Forms: [Also (in sense 2) with capital initials.]
[‹ third adj. and n. + way n.1]
1. A way of thinking or a solution to a problem that takes an alternative or middle course with respect to two pre-existing or traditional approaches.
1638C. Aleyn Hist. Henrie 7th 2164 Once by the Samnites when the Hoast of Rome, Was streight encompas'd: one did thus advise; Or slay them all, or send them fairely home. Shunne the third way. 1663R. Stapylton Slighted Maid iv. 61 Sall not I sheath my Sword in that Man's breast, Who has into my bosome flung Fire,..Not to be quench'd but either in thy blood, Or her fruition; there's no third way? yes, I'l marry her. 1721E. Young Revenge iv. i. 47 You cannot dye; nor can you Murder her. What then remains? In Nature no Third Way, But to forget, and so to love again. 1844Edinb. Rev. Oct. 574 Between these extreme courses lay a third way. 1861C. Reade Cloister & Hearth III. i. 24 Will you marry your child, or bury her, for there is no third way, sith shame and love they do rend her virgin heart to death. 1900N. Amer. Rev. May 636 A third way would be for Great Britain to consult neither China nor the other Powers, but to establish herself suddenly in the part she seeks for her own. 1949H. F. Mins tr. G. Lukács in R. W. Sellars et al. Philos. for Future 572 Modern phenomenology is one of the..philosophical methods which seek to rise above both idealism and materialism by discovering a philosophical ‘third way’, by making intuition the true source of knowledge. 1999Women's Rev. Bks. (Electronic ed.) 1 Feb. When suffragists split into warring camps in the 1920s, Blatch rejected ‘both ‘equality’ and ‘difference’ as unsatisfactory standards for a postsuffrage feminist program’. Instead, she articulated a ‘third way’ that eschewed the ‘blanket equality’ of the Equal Rights Amendment.
2. Polit. and Polit. Econ. A middle way between conventional right- and left-wing ideologies or policies; an ideology founded on political centrism or neutrality.
In the 1990s the ‘third way’ became identified with the political programmes of centre-left parties in Western Europe and North America, characterized by both a market-driven economic policy and a concern for social justice. The ‘third way’ in this context is frequently claimed to be an alternative to, rather than a compromise between, conventional right- and left-wing ideologies.
1935A. Guérard in Virginia Q. Rev. 11 10 Nations are..offered the hard choice: ‘Liberty’ through hopeless muddling, ‘Order’ through rigorous regimentation... There must be a Third Way. 1947S. Cloete Third Way v. 55 There is no middle course to be steered between fascism and communism. There is only something completely new—a third way which, though it may take something from both, as it must..—will resemble neither. 1950K. Mannheim Freedom, Power, & Democratic Planning Pref., [This book] proposes a Third Way incorporating the painful experiences of the last decades into a new pattern of democracy. 1969World Politics 21 558 [The French Communist Party] stressed the importance of a united left,..and warned repeatedly against the temptation for some parts of the Federation to renew the ‘third way’ politics of a left and center alliance. 1990Times Lit. Suppl. 18 May 518/3 DC politicians' past emphasis on centrismo and the ‘third way’ in economic policy should be seen as a tactical response. 1994Daily Tel. 15 Nov. 20/5 Poles and Ukrainians, both romantic nations, continue to talk about the Third Way between socialism and capitalism. 1998N.Y. Times 19 July 15/1 This ‘third way’ strategy, championed by Mr. Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, is founded on the notion that political parties should not feel limited to the traditional right or left approach to governing. |
