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Particularism

Par-tic′u-lar-ism

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Noun.
[Cf. F.
particularisme
.]
1.
A minute description; a detailed statement.
[R.]
2.
(Theol.)
The doctrine of particular election.
3.
(German Politics)
Devotion to the interests of one’s own kingdom or province rather than to those of the empire.

Definition 2024


particularism

particularism

English

Noun

particularism (countable and uncountable, plural particularisms)

  1. (theology) The principle that only certain people are chosen by God for salvation.
  2. An exclusive focus on a particular group, area, sect etc.
  3. (politics) The principle that individual states, races of a federation etc. may act independently of a central authority.
    • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 221:
      Despite the dominance of Castile and the stream of centralizing measures flowing from the new capital in Madrid, Aragonese particularism continued to make itself felt right up to the early eighteenth century.