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Chartism Eng. Hist.|ˈtʃɑːtɪz(ə)m|
[f. L. charta in sense charter + -ism.]
The democratic movement and principles of the Chartists, 1838–48.
1839New Monthly Mag. LVII. 536 A sort of intellectual Chartism, very sublime and beautiful in theory, but very useless in practice. 1839Carlyle (title) Chartism. 1859Mill Diss. & Disc. II. 189 The democratic movement among the operative classes, commonly known as Chartism, was the first open separation of interest, feeling, and opinion, between the labouring portion of the commonwealth and all above them. 1879McCarthy Own Times II. xviii. 18 Chartism did not die of its own excesses; it became an anachronism. |