Owenism
noun
the socialistic philosophy of Robert Owen.
Owenite
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a word derived from
Owenism.
Example Sentences
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There were Owenite communities in the 1820s, Fourier phalanges in the 1840s, spiritualist communes in the 1850s.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hard by is the college's Glen Helen, a hilly, 1,000 acre forest tract where a century ago lived a Communistic or Owenite colony.
From Time Magazine Archive
This Miss Fanny Wright was a famous lecturess, of the Owenite school, who was shunned like a pestilence by the fashionable world of New York.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various
The Owenite Communities.%—The efforts thus made everywhere and in every way to increase the comforts and conveniences of mankind turned the years 1820-1840 into a period of reform.
From A School History of the United States by John Bach McMaster
Chartism and Trade Unionism on the one hand, and the Coöperative Societies on the other, had, between them, absorbed most of the vital elements of the Owenite movement.
From Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles by John Spargo
