noun
definition
An ideology, system of thought, or practice that can be described by a word ending in -ism.
definition
Specifically, a form of discrimination, such as racism or sexism.
Examples of ism in a Sentence
A Deparatianu (1835-1865), whose language shows traces of the new Latinizing school; and Nicolae Nicoleanu (1833-1871), whose powerful poems, full of deep and often mystical reflections, lead on from Alexandrescu to Eminescu, all three being the poets of pessim- ism.
The acceptance of such summons meant the acceptance of Shi`ism.
The ISM can be proud of the central role we have played in the rebirth of the socialist movement in Scotland.
Since them we 've had semiotics and structuralism and poststructuralism and God knows what else ism, and the disease seems to have spread.
Before the rise of Neoplaton ism proper we meet with various mystical or semimystical expressions of the same religious craving.
But I distinguish the two finite causes self and not-self Panther ism.
Possibly over 60 people will join the ism this time.
The cost of developing and certifying the ism at Euro-4 may not be the only reason for Cummins balking here.
From this point, discussions of the origin of the SXRB became tightly linked to models of the local ism.
Our aim was to cover regions where outflows from the individual star clusters interact with each other and/or the ambient ism.
Since them we've had semiotics and structuralism and poststructuralism and God knows what else ism, and the disease seems to have spread.
Under his advice the opposition now made an alliance with Louis whereby the French king promised to help them to ruin Danby on condition that they would compel Charles, by stopping the supplies, to make peace with France, doing thus a grave injury to Protestant- ism abroad for the sake of a temporary party advantage at home.
The after-effects are, if anything, rather pleasant, and the habit of ether drinking is certainly not so injurious as alcohol- ism.
It is obvious that the results of such advances prescribe for the clinical physician methods which cannot be pursued without expert assistance; a physician engaged in busy prac- Spec;a;ism.
These acts were, however, accompanied by language of great decision against the Social Democrats, especially on the occasion of a great strike in Westphalia, when the emperor Progress of Social- warned the men that for him every Social Democrat ism.
In Galicia the extreme party, ism in Oa- headed by Smolka, had always desired to imitate the licia and Czechs and not attend at Vienna; they were outvoted, Bohemia, but all parties agreed on a declaration in which the final demands of the Poles were drawn up;' they asked that the powers of the Galician diet should be much increased, and that the members from Galicia should cease to attend the Reichsrath on the discussion of those matters with which the Galician diet should be qualified to deal.
A fresh step in the direction of Lutheran- Progress of ism was the translation of the New Testament into Swedish, which was published in 1526.
Three sons were the issue of this marriage, Sultan Ali, Ibrahim Mirza, and the youngest, Ism&il, the date of whose birth is put down as 1480 for reasons which will appear hereafter.
Year by year Republican- the budget showed a deficit, and the indebtedness ism and of the state increased.
This gas and dust scatters and absorbs starlight as it passes through the diffuse ism.
When Ferdinand returned to Naples in 1815 he found the kingdom, and especially the army, honeycombed with CarbonarQevolu- ism, to which many noblemen and officers were tiot, if, affiliated; and although the police instituted prosecuNaples, tions and organized the counter-movement of the 1820.
The fascination of pure study was so powerful, the Italians at that epoch were so eager to recover the past, that during the 15th century we have before our eyes the spectacle of this great nation deviating from the course of development begun in poetry by Dante and Petrarch, in prose by Boccaccio ism to and Villani, into the channels of scholarship and anti- - quarian research.