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▪ I. communitarian, n.|kəˌmjuːnɪˈtɛərɪən|
[f. community + -arian: cf. unitarian, etc.]
A member of a community formed to put into practice communistic or socialistic theories.
1841Barmby [founded] The Universal Communitarian Association. 1842Miall in Nonconf. II. 809 Your communitarians, or societarians of modern days who seem intent on fashioning a new moral world by getting rid of all individuality of feeling, etc. 1852Hawthorne Blithedale Rom. I. viii. 143 These mendacious rogues circulated a report that we communitarians were exterminated. 1880T. Frost Forty Years' Recoll. 46 The Ham Common communitarians found raw carrots and cold water unendurable when the snow lay thick upon the ground.
▸ Sociol. and Polit. An advocate of the theory or ideology of communitarianism (communitarianism n. 2).
1984G. C. Lodge Amer. Dis. ii. 44 The community, says the communitarian, is more than the sum of the individuals in it; the community is organic, not atomistic. 1991Futurist May 35/1 Etzioni discusses the issues with which communitarians are wrestling, from efforts to combat drug dealing, to the moral upbringing of youth, to political corruption. 1995Independent on Sunday 5 Feb. i. 6/6 Communitarians tend to draw back from laying down laws. They emphasise the need for people to change their hearts and to realise that, for example, it is more satisfying for parents to bring up children properly than to spend all their time at work. 2001Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 1 Feb. There is still no such thing as a card-carrying communitarian.
▪ II. communitarian, a.|kəˌmjuːnɪˈtɛərɪən|
[f. the n.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a community or communistic system; communitive.
1909in Webster. 1962Listener 18 Jan. 139/1 The idea of communitarian socialism. Ibid., Communitarian projects. 1966New Statesman 21 Jan. 73/2 The kind of libertarian, communitarian society he often promises.
▸ Sociol. and Polit. Of, relating to, or embodying the theory or ideology of communitarianism (communitarianism n. 2).
1983Policy Rev. Winter 188 The ethos of cooperation..shapes a certain kind of human being who is neither an individualist nor a collectivist but a ‘communitarian individual’. Crucial to the development of the individual and indispensable to the continuation of democratic capitalism is the family. 1985Philos. & Public Affairs 14 308 We are witnessing a revival of communitarian criticisms of liberal political theory. 1995Times 20 Feb. 9 The communitarian call to restore civic virtues, [is] for people to live up to their responsibilities and not merely focus on their entitlements, to shore up the moral foundations of society. 2001Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 1 Feb. Bush's inaugural address, said George Washington University professor Amitai Etzioni, a communitarian thinker, ‘was a communitarian text’, full of words like ‘civility’, ‘responsibility’ and ‘community’. |