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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A 16th-century political movement in the Kingdom of Poland and, later, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, seeking the revendication of public and state lands which were illegally held by various magnates. historical, uncountable

Etymology

From execution + -ism.

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