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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Support for a frontier; especially, the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that a settler colonial exceptionalism, under the guise of American democracy, was formed by appropriation of the rugged American frontier. uncountable

Etymology

From frontier + -ism.

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