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ˌstatu-ˈquoism nonce-wd.
[f. L. phrase (in) statū quō (see in prep. 29) + -ism.]
Partisanship of the existing condition of things. So also statu-quo-ite, whence statuquoitism.
1816T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall i, These four persons were, Mr. Foster, the perfectibilian; Mr. Escot, the deteriorationist; Mr. Jenkison, the statu-quo-ite; and the Reverend Doctor Gaster. 1826H. N. Coleridge Six Months in W. Ind. (1832) 184 There is so much statuquoitism in the old colonies. 1848Steinmetz Hist. Jesuits III. 388 Another peculiarity of the Chinese was statu-quo-ism, their imitative faculties having from time immemorial completely palsied the inventive. |