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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Good citizenship; devotion to one's country or city: a word of late French origin, more restricted in meaning than patriotism. See incivism.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare State of citizenship.

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  • noun citizenship

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