Definitions
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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
citizenship
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Examples
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Buonaparte armed himself accordingly with an authenticated certificate as to the posts he had held, and the period during which he had held them, and with another as to his "civism" -- the phrase used at that time to designate the quality of friendliness to the Revolution.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) William Milligan Sloane 1889
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We oblige [21101] teachers, male and female, to present certificates of civism, that is to say, of Jacobinism.
The French Revolution - Volume 3 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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I mean, all of this is expressing a kind of civism that we have in our country, a faith in the country that is actually performed on a football field, of all places.
George Washington�s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century 2003
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Is it the gabacho culture to not get over things, or does this country not have enough culture and this tragedy now is part of American civism?
Gustavo Arellano: Ask A Mexican!: Is "Mexican" an Offensive Word? Gustavo Arellano 2011
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Civilisation can only be with civism and its crash could never be for the benefit of mankind.
Think Progress » William J. Fallon: Wrong Man For The Job 2007
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The only surprise I expect in the Llanos is in Portuguesa where the governor has some civism left in her and where the democratic left tradition of past eras might come back to Acarigua and Guanare.
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The only surprise I expect in the Llanos is in Portuguesa where the governor has some civism left in her and where the democratic left tradition of past eras might come back to Acarigua and Guanare.
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I recollect the steward telling my grandmother that she might live at Grandvilliers in complete security, because her corn was as good as a certificate of civism.
Father Goriot 2003
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A contempt for religion or decency has been considered as the test of an attachment to the government; and a gross infraction of any moral or social duty as a proof of civism, and a victory over prejudice.
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Indications that may serve to distinguish suspicious persons, and those to whom it will be proper to refuse certificates of civism:
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