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Civism

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Good citizenship; devotion to one's country or city: a word of late French origin, more restricted in meaning than patriotism. See incivism.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. State of citizenship.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. citizenship
  • Word Usage
    "Buonaparte armed himself accordingly with an authenticated certificate as to the posts he had held, and the period during which he had held them, and with another as to his "civism" -- the phrase used at that time to designate the quality of friendliness to the Revolution."
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