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De - Pt| English Dictionary: ...ism | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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-ism \-ism\ [F. -isme, or L. -ismus, Gr. [?].] A suffix indicating an act, a process, the result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idiom, etc.); as, baptism, galvanism, organism, hypnotism, socialism, sensualism, Anglicism. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Ism \Ism\, n. [See {ism}, above.] A doctrine or theory; especially, a wild or visionary theory. --E. Everett. The world grew light-headed, and forth came a spawn of isms which no man can number. --S. G. Goodrich. | |
