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conservatism|kənˈsɜːvətɪz(ə)m|
[f. stem of conservat-ive + -ism; cf. separatist, speculatist, but also positivism]
The doctrine and practice of Conservatives: primarily as a term of English politics; = Toryism.
1835Arnold Let. to Justice Coleridge 16 Dec. (R. Suppl.), Any one, who has not satisfied himself, as I have, that Conservatism [in politics] is wrong. 1840― Let. in Stanley Life (1844) II. ix. 188 The principle of Conservatism has always appeared to me to be not only foolish, but to be actually felo de se: it destroys what it loves, because it will not mend it. 1844Disraeli Coningsby ii. v, Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. I. 148 Like all great English statesmen, he was constitutionally conservative, but he had the tact to perceive the conditions under which in critical times, conservatism is possible. 1862Standard 24 Mar., Let no one presume to identify Conservatism with reaction.
b. Hence, generally, conservative principles in politics, theology, criticism, etc.
1850Whipple Ess. & Rev. (ed. 3) I. 184 That shrinking timidity of conservatism, which fears every thing new, for the reason that it is new. 1879Farrar St. Paul I. 366 The stiff conservatism of a few Rabbis. |