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- noun The
defence of thesovereignty of individualcountries in the face of broaderEuropean integration
Etymologies
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From sovereign + -ism
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Examples
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The man of made-over, recycled sovereignism, none the less tragically populist and regressive as the old one.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: The Art of the Primary Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011
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Taken together with their class and English-Canadian majoritarian antagonism towards the Francophone mass base of Quebec sovereignism, they are unable to go beyond symbolic accommodation of Quebec's national aspirations, which continue to shape attitudes toward federal politics in that province.
unknown title 2009
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