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anticivism

anticivism noun: opposition to the body politic of citizens.

Noun

anticivism (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) opposition to the body politic of citizens
    • Wo to him who is guilty of Plotting, of Anticivism, Royalism, Feuillantism; who, guilty or not guilty, has an enemy in his Section to call him guilty!1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter II, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book I (September), page 22

Origin of anticivism

From anti- + civism.

Questions about anticivism

What does anticivism mean?
Anticivism means opposition to the body politic of citizens.
What part of speech is anticivism?
Anticivism is a noun.

Words near anticivism in the dictionary

  1. anticivil
  2. anticivilian
  3. anticivilisational
  4. anticivilization
  5. anticivilizational
  6. anticivism
  7. anticize
  8. anticized
  9. anticizes
  10. anticizing
  11. antick

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