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单词 locofocoism
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locofocoismn.

Brit. /ˌləʊkəʊˈfəʊkəʊɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈˌloʊkoʊˈfoʊkoʊˌɪzəm/
Forms: also with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: loco-foco n., -ism suffix.
Etymology: < loco-foco n. + -ism suffix.
Politics (originally and chiefly U.S., now historical).
1. Adherence to the Loco-foco party or its principles; the application of the principles of the Loco-foco party.
ΚΠ
1837 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 28 Aug. in Amer. Notebks. (1972) ii. 75 The most arrant democracy and loco-focoism, that I have happened to hear.
1850 W. Molesworth Speeches Commons Bill for Better Govt. Austral. 28 The plan of the Colonial Office is a strange mixture of folly and rashness, imprudence and locofocoism.
1888 E. M. Shepard Martin Van Buren ix. 294 But with time and familiarity Chartism and Loco-focoism alike lost their horrid aspect.
1921 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 26 708 The chief significance of Loco-Focoism..is not derived from its manifestation as a political party in New York, but from the spread of its tenets.
1966 J. G. Rayback Hist. Amer. Labor (new ed.) ii. vii. 89 When the workingmen's principles were translated into Locofocoism, the Whig effort to hold or attract a labor vote became a national policy.
2000 W. Marvel Place called Appomattox i. 13 Locofocoism had its philosophical roots in antagonism toward the privileged class that [Samuel] McDearmon was striving so diligently to attain.
2. A principle of the Loco-foco party. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > Democratic Party > principles of branches of
locofocoism1863
Bourbonism1884
1863 ‘S. L. Jones’ Life in South I. i. 5 ‘Platforms’, ‘constitutions’, ‘compromises’, ‘locofocoisms’,..and ‘democrats’, were given up in despair.
1981 C. L. Bushman Good Poor Man's Wife (1998) v. 74 He even wished well to his competitor in everything but his Locofocoisms.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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