Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The feeling and perception of unity which pervade any social class and include a sense of common nature, identity of interests, and similarity of manners.
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Examples
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That Bill Totts lacked the perspective to raise him above class-consciousness Freddie Drummond clearly saw.
SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010
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That Bill Totts lacked the perspective to raise him above class-consciousness, Freddie Drummond clearly saw.
SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010
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Mr. Pryce-Jones notes that William Hazlitt, who referred to Napoleon as "the great god of my idolatry," was most likely influenced by "reasons springing out of class-consciousness."
The Disloyal Opposition William Anthony Hay 2011
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Our colleague Anthony Faiola dissects the tensions and class-consciousness aroused by her engagement to Prince William in the U.K., "a society where status is measured in birthright and breeding," and people still snark about how her now fabulously rich mother used to be a flight attendant.
Read this: On what planet is Kate Middleton a "commoner"? Oh, right: England The Reliable Source 2010
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A proposal for a new mill to process uranium ore, which would lead to the opening of long-shuttered mines in Colorado and Utah, has brought global and local concerns into collision -- jobs, health, class-consciousness and historical memory among them -- in ways that suggest, if the pattern here holds, a bitter national debate to come.
NYT: Colorado Suggests Impending Bitter National Debate Over Uranium Ethan Axelrod 2010
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In the excerpts of her wartime diary which she included in her published memoirs, Titika revealed the acute class-consciousness and prejudice of the day and the heightened regionalism of Greek society, both features of Greek society which EAM sought to change.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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A proposal for a new mill to process uranium ore, which would lead to the opening of long-shuttered mines in Colorado and Utah, has brought global and local concerns into collision -- jobs, health, class-consciousness and historical memory among them -- in ways that suggest, if the pattern here holds, a bitter national debate to come.
NYT: Colorado Suggests Impending Bitter National Debate Over Uranium Ethan Axelrod 2010
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Amongst the most significant of these developments were the consolidation of working class-consciousness and politics5 (especially following the success of the Russian Revolution in 1917), the expansion and radicalisation of political parties, the reinvigoration of the demotic movement, and the beginning of a new era of feminist activism.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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It's hard to escape the class-consciousness of this story, especially with awkward but meaningful phrasing like "sable-and-evening-clothes-clad party-goers."
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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And they offered the Jewish woman a temporarily viable synthesis of her desire for self-sufficiency and fulfillment, her energy, her idealism, her class-consciousness, and the traditional culture out of which some of these aspirations and attitudes emerged.
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