单词 | industrialism |
释义 | industrialismn. A social or economic system in which industry (esp. large-scale manufacturing industry) is prevalent; the organization or fostering of industry within a society. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > [noun] > preference for (as main employment) industrialism1826 1826 Morning Chron. 22 Dec. We have then to defend the Monastic Government..against the false doctrines of utility, entirely material, which are circulated under the title of industrialism. 1844 M. Hennell Social Syst. 201 The anarchy of civilized industrialism. 1869 J. R. Seeley Lect. & Ess. i. 18 Poets sang of a golden age returned, and they hymned industrialism in exquisite language. 1880 Academy 24 Jan. 59/1 Ceremony..dies away among industrial societies, and among those classes which industrialism has produced. 1907 J. Conrad Secret Agent vi. 113 Industrialism as a method of human development appeared to her singularly repulsive in its mechanical and unfeeling character. 1939 Fortune Oct. 55/3 Machinery and automotive equipment, two of the foundations of industrialism, employed the sixth biggest labor force in Germany. 1968 T. L. Hartshorne Distorted Image ix. 192 Industrialism, since it was the most efficient producer of wealth in the modern world, was no longer regarded as the enemy of democracy, but as its strongest bastion. 2013 Guardian (Nexis) 3 Sept. 30 Wordsworth..is partly responsible for a strange bifurcation in our minds, which sees industrialism as malign and destructive and agriculture as benign and harmonious. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1826 |
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