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Rousseauism

American  
[roo-soh-iz-uhm] / ruˈsoʊ ɪz əm /

noun

  1. the doctrines or principles of Jean Jacques Rousseau or his adherents.


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Origin of Rousseauism

First recorded in 1860–65; Rousseau + -ism

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There are two chapters of "Rousseauism," I have not     touched yet--Rousseauism in Theology, and Rousseauism in Education.

From A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

It reverts to the age of Louis XIV., and Rousseauism in their literature is as true an innovation and parenthesis as Pope-and-Drydenism was in ours.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

It must be confessed that his own shallow political science, the second-hand Rousseauism he had learned from his desultory reading, had little to do with this, except negatively.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan

By Rousseauism we indicate the doctrinal dream of that dreamer; by no means the actual waking practice of the man that dreamed.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

It was all Rousseauism in experiment and reduced to absurdity.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

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