单词 | retrogradism |
释义 | retrogradismn. Advocacy of or support for retrogression; extreme conservatism; the adoption of a reactionary attitude. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > dislike of change, reaction > [noun] reaction1792 statu quo-ism1834 retrogradism1849 reactionism1857 misoneism1886 reactionaryism1907 reactionariness1908 Blimpism1937 blimpery1940 immobilism1949 sclerosis1954 1849 Southern Literary Messenger 15 626/1 Toryism, feudalism, medievalism, all manners of retrogradism and rottenness in opinion,..all variations of desire for false and ruinous conservatism. 1851 W. E. Gladstone tr. L. C. Farini Rom. State II. iii. viii. 170 The tumults that frequently arose were serviceable to the retrogradism of the Court. 1897 Times 21 Dec. 11/4 It was a singular indication of the association of intellectual obscurity with economic retrogradism. 1979 Classical Rev. 29 219 This degree of retrogradism will arouse almost universal dismay today. 2006 R. Plunz & M. Sheridan in W. S. Saunders Urban Planning Today ii. 21 Neither self-conscious avant-gardism nor image-driven ‘retrogradism’ will serve to create the physical and social structures necessary for..security. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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