α. 1900s– arrivisme.
β. 1900s– arrivism.
arrivismen.
/ˌariːˈviːz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌɑriˈviz(ə)m/ Chiefly depreciative.
Behaviour, attitudes, or practices characteristic of an arriviste (see arriviste n.); the fact or condition of being an arriviste.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > rise in prosperity, power, or rank > one who is rising in rank or prosperity > ambitious or self-seeking > attitude of
arrivisme1904
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β. 1908 M. A. Mügge Friedrich Nietzsche iii. 349 It may appear as a justification of the most brutal arrivism and pitiless egoism.1936 M. Franklin All that Swagger xxi. 199 Arrivism was his creed.2001 BOMB Winter 41/1 There are aspects of Chilean society that I consider deplorable: the arrivism, the classism, what amounts to a kind of deliberate ignorance.1904 Monthly Rev. Sept. 33 Socialism..is not a mere wild-cat scheme of shouting zealots or another name for the policy of ‘getting on somehow,’ to be dropped when you have got on, not, in a word (a delicious one, a few years old), arrivisme.
1944 A. L. Rowse Eng. Spirit xii. 92 Its arrivisme can be exaggerated: people did not rise, under Elizabeth, from the bottom of the social scale.
2004 V. Knowles From Telegrapher to Titan xi. 286 Van Horne was typical of many late nineteenth-century North American gentlemen of wealth, some of whom sought to veneer their arrivisme with the cultural trappings of the Old World.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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n.1904- to accept a person at her word
- to accept a person at his word
- to accept at a rebound
- to accept at rebound
- to accept at the rebound
- to accept in worth
- to accept persons
- to accept service
- to accept the face of
- to accept the files
- to accept the light
- to accept the person of
- to accomplish one's end(s
- to acknowledge admit the corn
- to acknowledge confess the corn
- to acknowledge defeat
- to acknowledge the corn
- to acquire merit
- to acquit a person
- to acquit a person her meed
- to acquit a person his
- to act a part
- to act affirmatively
- to act mean
- to act more —— than the