单词 | gradualism |
释义 | gradualismn. The principle or method of gradual as opposed to immediate change. Originally used with reference to the abolition of slavery. (Cf. immediatism n.) ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > gradual change > [noun] > principle or method of gradualism1835 incrementalism1968 society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific political theories or doctrines > [noun] > other political theories or doctrines white supremacy1824 gradualism1835 reformism1838 restrictionism1840 mutualism1842 new politics1844 perpetualism1849 economism1850 progressivism1855 possibilism1883 radicalism1899 maximalism1909 radical feminism1912 Eurasianism1922 communalism1923 los von Rom1923 voluntarism1924 exceptionalism1929 third way1935 cultural Marxism1938 quislingism1940 identitarianism1943 libertarianism1948 one-worldism1948 renewalism1965 ecologism1969 Third Worldism1970 ecofeminism1980 communitarian1984 1835 H. G. Otis in Liberator V. 144 Immediatism..is the opposite of gradualism, another new coinage. 1846 H. Martineau Introd. Hist. Peace III. iv. viii. 13 The unsound method of ‘gradualism’ in the abolition of slavery. 1855 H. Martineau Autobiogr. (1877) III. 233 He got his gradualism assented to in Parliament. 1865 J. R. Lowell Reconstruct. in Prose Wks. (1890) V. 237 We have purposely avoided any discussion on gradualism as an element in emancipation. 1931 Time & Tide 5 Sept. (Suppl.) 19/2 The reading of the facts now most popular in the Labour Movement will inevitably strengthen enormously the ‘dictatorship of the Proletariat’ solution... ‘This,’ remarked one of the younger Labour M.P.'s the other day, ‘is the end of gradualism.’ 1959 Times 16 Mar. 9 Gradualism is to continue to be Mr. Gomulka's agricultural watchword [in Poland]. 1963 Economist 15 June 1134/1 Gradualism is in disfavour with increasing numbers of Negroes. 1965 Listener 3 June 812/2 We were thinking in terms of the politics of democracy and gradualism, of separate African states, each different. 1969 Times 6 Jan. 9/2 The best hope for Ulster..is..to allow the gradualism of Captain O'Neill's ministry to go forward, without direct intervention from Westminster. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1835 |
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