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This cosmopolitism partly fuelled the region's aspiration for statehood, which it attained in 1996.

From BBC • May 18, 2018

Lord Brougham's French predilections do credit to his sense of cosmopolitism; but he appears to us somewhat more disposed to conciliate the jealousy of his very irritable French confr�res, than to deal rigorous justice.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various

"Nay, you know your own pretended cosmopolitism; and ought not the cousin of Captain Ducie to be an Englishman?"

From Home as Found by Cooper, James Fenimore

The cosmopolitism which does not spring out of, and blossom upon, the deep-rooted stem of nationality or patriotism, is a spurious and rotten growth.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

Another trait of the refugees is their cosmopolitism.

From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Bastide, Charles