particularism
noun
exclusive attention or devotion to one's own particular interests, party, etc.
particularist
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a word derived from
particularism.
Example Sentences
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“The Lions’ Den” illustrates the individual struggles of Jewish leftists in the World War II generation to reconcile their conflicting impulses, the particularist pull of Zionism and the universalist pull of socialism.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2019
Educated classes are less moved by particularist appeals to ethnic and national identity and more by internationalism and universal norms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2016
It is also worth noting that none of them related to the balance of power between the Federal and State Governments, upon which Jefferson is often loosely accused of holding extreme particularist views.
From A History of the United States by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Neither the Spaniards nor the Austrians had succeeded in uprooting particularist tendencies.
From Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day by Emile Cammaerts
The rabbis recognized that this consummation was far away, and that Judaism must remain particularist for centuries in the hope of a final universalism.
From Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwich
