civism
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of civism
1785–95; < French civisme < Latin cīv ( is ) citizen + French -isme -ism
Example Sentences
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Andr� Malraux, that archetypal homme engage, once noted that America's "sense of civism" was among its most striking features, especially in the private sector.
From Time Magazine Archive
You have recognized the existence of other persons than officers, and of other relations than civism.
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Carlyle, Thomas
They have no energy, no courage, no civism.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various
And thence concludes that the greatest proof of the animal's civism is "la prima congiunzione, dalla quale multiplicata nasce la Città."
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
A detestable selection of those called instructors; almost everywhere, they are men without morals or education, who owe their nomination solely to a pretended civism, consisting of nothing but an insensibility to morality and propriety.
From The Modern Regime, Volume 1 by Durand, John
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