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Cobdenism|ˈkɒbdənɪz(ə)m|
[f. the name of Richard Cobden (1804–1865).]
A policy advocating free trade, peace, and international cooperation. So ˈCobdenite n., a supporter of Cobdenism; a., of or pertaining to Cobdenism; ˈCobdenic, ˈCobdenitish adjs.
1853A. Somerville (title) Cobdenic Policy the Internal Enemy of England. 1887W. J. Harris in Nat. Rev. Nov. 311 Cobdenites point to the agricultural population as too small a part of the total number to be considered in the arguments of Protection versus Free Trade. Ibid., I am simply striving to escape the natural conclusion to which Cobdenism is driving me. 1905Westm. Gaz. 25 Mar. 2/2 And that's enough at once to set me off A-tilting at the Cobdenitish seers. 1927Observer 8 May 16/8 Biology and psychology are stronger..than the too materialistic naïveté of merely Cobdenite economics. 1929Daily Tel. 8 Jan. 7/2, I met a Cobdenite the other day, and, like a true Cobdenite, he said he was in favour of letting the miners starve. 1957Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 603/1 There is a further distinction between the older system and Cobdenism... Under the Cobdenite system the colonies had no part to play at all different from that of foreign countries... The idea that all economists of that [sc. free-trade] school were Cobdenites is without foundation. |