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单词 localism
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localismn.

Brit. /ˈləʊkəlɪz(ə)m/, /ˈləʊkl̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈloʊkəˌlɪz(ə)m/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; originally modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: local adj., -ism suffix.
Etymology: < local adj. + -ism suffix, originally after French localisme (1797 in the passage translated in quot. 1798). Compare earlier localist n.
1.
a. Preference for a particular place or region, esp. that in which one lives; limitation of ideas, sympathies, and interests resulting from this; tendency to favour what is local. Also: an instance of this.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > narrow-mindedness > insularity, provincialism > [noun]
insularity1755
provinciality1769
localism1798
provincialism1819
parish pump1840
parochialism1847
vestrydom1860
vestryism1861
Podsnappery1864
parochialness1866
vestryhood1871
insularism1880
peninsularity1882
parochiality1887
parish pumpery1902
localitis1943
bourgeois-mindedness1955
1798 R. Clifford tr. A. Barruel Mem. Hist. Jacobinism III. ix. 181 We really beheld Patriotism generating Localism [Fr. le Localisme], the confined spirit of families, and at length Egoism.
1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain II. ix. 188 I have never seen the spirit of localism, which is so prevalent throughout Spain more strong than at Saint James.
1851 D. Webster Wks. II. 526 I am one of those who believe that our system of government is not to be destroyed by localisms, North or South.
1883 Spectator 30 June 828 Agriculture is more weighted by what we may call the localism of labour than by any other single cause.
1927 Rotarian July 15/1 In those days nationalism and even localism were much more pronounced than now.
1961 Life 17 Mar. 83/1 Once the War was over the Confederacy became a City of the Soul, beyond the haggling of politicians and the jealousy of localisms.
2007 R. van Ginkel in P. J. Margry & H. Roodenburg Reframing Dutch Culture iii. 38 The Sunderklaas celebration is one of several ways in which the islanders express their localism.
b. Politics. The policy or practice of giving greater control to local residents, representatives, and authorities (as opposed to national or central government); prioritization of local initiatives, issues, and concerns. Also: advocacy of or support for this. Cf. regionalism n. 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific policies or advocacy of > [noun] > other specific policies or advocacy of
laissez-faireism1848
localism1848
laissez-faire1873
irredentism1883
dissolutionism1894
expansionism1900
bilingualism1901
non-alignment1908
agriculturism1919
cultural imperialism1921
isolationism1922
unilateralism1926
autarky1934
elitism1934
pronatalism1938
neo-isolationism1951
non-alignedness1962
1848 Morning Chron. 29 Mar. 4/5 The union of individual participation..with..[a combined central power], legislative centralization with administrative localism.
1877 R. Wakelin Hist. & Politics 92 Localism v. centralism... Men chosen by the locality and resident on the spot..best know the wants of the district.
1921 J. Bryce Mod. Democracies II. xli. 55 Although American localism excludes many of the best men from politics, it may be credited with also excluding..undesirable adventurers.
1988 A. I. Cyr Liberal Politics in Brit. 182 The Liberal Party..philosophy stresses localism, individualism, and decentralization.
2012 Daily Tel. 11 Oct. 29/2 The final straw has been the Government's so-called localism legislation. This was supposed to have provided communities with greater control over local development.
2. Something characteristic of a particular place or region; a local feature or custom; esp. a linguistic feature or word peculiar to a place or region (cf. regionalism n. 3).
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun] > a characteristic > of a particular area
locality1802
localism1823
provincialism1845
speciality1854
the mind > language > a language > dialect > [noun] > regional dialects > word or phrase of
rusticity1675
rusticism1749
provincialism1770
villagism1772
localism1823
nationalism1823
colonialism1842
ruralism1854
1823 E. Moor (title) Suffolk words and phrases, or an attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county.
1850 E. A. Freeman in Ecclesiologist 10 284 Architectural localisms, as illustrated by the churches of Northamptonshire and Leicestershire.
1897 Saga-bk. Viking Club Jan. 306 Brushing away many of the most interesting localisms in thought and language.
1932 Motor Boating Jan. 94/2 I had expected to hear many localisms of speech and some Shakesperean English, but neither was noticeable.
1973 Cincinnati Aug. 108/2 City chicken is nothing more than a lingering and humorous localism. An in-phrase for the hometowners, no more.
2009 S. Pincott Elephants & I 277 Put foot, a localism for ‘hurry’.
3. The belief that fevers or febrile diseases originate in a particular part or organ of the body, or are caused by conditions specific to a particular locality. Now historical.
ΚΠ
1828 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 9 15 Nothing..is left with which to combat disease, by this exclusive theory of localism, but leeches and starving.
1848 Western Lancet 8 22 Neither the morbid phenomena, nor the post-mortem appearances, gave any support to the theory of localism.
1890 Pacific Rec. Med. & Surg. 5 51 The reappearance of Cholera Asiatica at many points of the globe has imparted new animation to the discussion of the two antagonistic theories which are briefly called: Contagionism and Localism.
2011 J. Aberth Plagues in World Hist. 103 Anticontagionism, also referred to as localism or infectionism..recommended sanitation measures and better hygiene.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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