释义 |
moderatism|ˈmɒdərətɪz(ə)m| [f. moderate a. and n. + -ism.] The doctrines or policy of any of the parties known as ‘Moderate’; addiction to moderate views or courses of action.
1795Hist. in Ann. Reg. 83 It was common..with the more violent Jacobins..to make charges against those who were less so, or insinuate suspicions of Moderatism! 1835Pusey in Newman's Lett. (1891) II. 134 But I fear those persons have too far committed themselves, and are too ingrained with moderatism. 1842Mem. J. Halley 38 The principles of Moderatism in the Scottish Church. 1894Westm. Gaz. 2 Apr. 2/2 Moderatism, then, has made no way in Rotherhithe; but a certain number of Progressives who voted in 1892 did not take the trouble to go to the poll. 1923G. M. Trevelyan Manin & Venetian Revolution iii. 49 The event resounded through Italy and Europe. It shook the somewhat self-complacent ‘moderatism’ of Giobertian waiters on opportunity. 1970Guardian 1 Oct. 19/4 Mr. Crouch's apologia for ‘moderatism’..is as unexciting in print as it was ineffective in the worst university crises. |