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Chartisms

Chartisms is the plural of Chartism.

Meaning of Chartism

Proper noun

Chartism (plural Chartisms)

  1. (historical) 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...

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Questions about Chartisms

What is Chartisms the plural of?
Chartisms is the plural of Chartism.

Words near Chartisms in the dictionary

  1. Chartier
  2. Chartiers
  3. charting
  4. chartings
  5. chartism
  6. Chartisms
  7. chartist
  8. chartists
  9. chartjunk
  10. chartless
  11. chartlessness

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