gentilism
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of gentilism
Example Sentences
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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 Friedrich Engels
The state differs from gentilism in that it first divides its members by territories.
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels
None had fairly begun to emerge from gentilism; none had advanced so far as the Greeks of the first Olympiad or the Romans under the rule of the Tarquins.
From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by John Fiske
It is not composed of armed men alone, but has also such objects as prisons and correction houses attached to it, that were unknown to gentilism.
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels
In preceding chapters we have shown by three concrete examples the three main forms in which the state was built up on the ruins of gentilism.
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels
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