ultraisms

Noun

ultraism (countable and uncountable, plural ultraisms)

1. Radicalism or political extremism.
   • We glory in such ultraism—the ultraism which says that “all men are created equal—[…]the ultraism which treats man as an intelligent and immortal being, and not as an article of merchandize and traffic—[…]1838, Vermont Anti-Slavery Society, Fourth Annual Report of the Vermont Anti-Slavery Society, page 26
2. A Spanish poetic movement opposed to modernism.
   • The eight young signers of this “Ultra manifesto” could not have known at the time how accurate and prescient their declaration was. Spanish ultraism, born as a movement with that document, would be distinguished, ironically, by its indiscriminate and eclectic borrowings from the other European...1981, Thorpe Running, Borges' Ultraist Movement and its Poets, Lathrup Village, Mich.: International Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 1