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单词 elitism
释义 elit·ism
I. \-lēd.ˌizəm, -lēˌtiz-\ noun
(-s)
1. : belief in and advocacy of leadership or rule by an elite
 < in other recent writers … one can find a similar elitism and a similar concern with … strong leadership — David Riesman >
also : leadership or rule by an elite
 < will … be charged … with being undemocratic, or, worse, of advocating elitism — Cormac Philip >
2. : consciousness of being an elite or one of the elite
 < they escape the elitism which is characteristic of the administrative class in the national government — C.J.Friedrich >
 < the new liberalism enjoyed its taste of elitism, of being in the know — Louis Filler >
II. noun
: the selectivity of the elite ; especially : snobbery
 < revealed their elitism in choosing new members >
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