particularist
- a word derived from particularism.
Example Sentences
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“The Lions’ Den” illustrates the individual struggles of Jewish leftists in the World War II generation to reconcile their conflicting impulses, the particularist pull of Zionism and the universalist pull of socialism.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2019
Educated classes are less moved by particularist appeals to ethnic and national identity and more by internationalism and universal norms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2016
It is also worth noting that none of them related to the balance of power between the Federal and State Governments, upon which Jefferson is often loosely accused of holding extreme particularist views.
From A History of the United States by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
Her government was singularly ineffective, the decentralization being such as often to permit the separatist, the particularist, spirit of the provinces to rob the central authority of all efficiency.
From African and European Addresses by Roosevelt, Theodore
But a particularist among surgeons would have found much to disapprove of in this room.
From Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Dolbey, Robert Valentine
