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particularistic

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Characterized by or partaking of particularism, in any of its senses; concerning or restricted to a particular race, community, body of persons, etc., as distinguished from general or universal; specifically, seeking to promote or favoring the interests of a particular member of a political confederation, as opposed to the interest of the whole; relating to the recent German particularists.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to particularism.

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  • adjective relating to particularism (exclusive interest in one group or class or sect etc.)

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particularism +‎ -istic

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