gentilism
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of gentilism
Example Sentences
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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
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 Engels, Friedrich
The rapid loss of the bonds of blood in the gens as a result of conquest caused the degeneration of the tribal and national organs of gentilism.
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels, Friedrich
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 Fiske, John
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
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