chartism
chartism noun: the practices and methodologies of chartists.
Noun
chartism (uncountable)
- The practices and methodologies of chartists.
Proper noun capitalized: Chartism
Chartism (plural Chartisms)
- A working-class movement for political and social reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century.
- An insincere world; a godless untruth of a world! It is out of this, as I consider, that the whole tribe of social pestilences, French Revolutions, Chartisms, and what not, have derived their being,—their chief necessity to be.1840 May 19, Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture V. The Hero as Man of Letters. Johnson, Rousseau, Burns.”, in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1840...
- […] when she married the young clergyman, and went to settle in that smoky hole Turley; a very nest of Chartism and Atheism, in a part of the country which all the decent families had had to leave for years.1857, [Thomas Hughes], chapter II, in Tom Brown’s School Days. […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC
chartism meaning in Tamil
chartism in Tamil
- சாசனத்துவம்
Forms of chartism
| plural | Chartisms |
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Origin of chartism
From chart + -ism.
From chart(er) + -ism, named after the People's Charter of 1838, laying out the movement's six main aims.
Questions about chartism
- What does chartism mean?
- Chartism means the practices and methodologies of chartists.
- What is chartism in Tamil?
- Chartism in Tamil is சாசனத்துவம். See Chartism meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is chartism?
- Chartism can be a noun or a proper noun.
Words near chartism in the dictionary
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