particularist
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From particular + -ist, after French particulariste.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]particularist (plural particularists)
- One who holds to particularism.
Adjective
[edit]particularist (comparative more particularist, superlative most particularist)
- (theology) Adhering to particularism.
- Showing excessive devotion to one's own region, nation, party etc.
- Synonym: partisan
- 1994 April 7, Edward Luttwak, “Why Fascism is the Wave of the Future”, in London Review of Books[1], volume 16, number 07, →ISSN:
- And what does the moderate Left have to offer? Only more redistribution, more public assistance, and particularist concern for particular groups that can claim victim status, from the sublime peak of elderly, handicapped, black lesbians down to the merely poor.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 272:
- The province's identity was fixed on traditionalist and historical attachment to particularist privilege.
Antonyms
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[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French particulariste.
Noun
[edit]particularist m (plural particulariști)
Declension
[edit]Declension of particularist
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) particularist | particularistul | (niște) particulariști | particulariștii |
genitive/dative | (unui) particularist | particularistului | (unor) particulariști | particulariștilor |
vocative | particularistule | particulariștilor |
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