gentilism
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of gentilism
Example Sentences
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There was none of that coalescence and incorporation of peoples which occurs after the change from gentilism to civil society has been effected.
From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by Fiske, John
The free and voluntary respect that was accorded to the organs of gentilism does not satisfy them any more, even if they might have it.
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels, Friedrich
Whatever went beyond the tribe, went outside of gentilism.
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels, Friedrich
The organs of gentilism changed from servants of the public will to independent organs of rule oppressing their own people.
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels, Friedrich
Nevertheless this local constitution retained some of the primeval democratic character which distinguishes the whole gentile order, and thus preserved a piece of gentilism even in its enforced degeneration of later times.
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels, Friedrich
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