Owenism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The utopian socialist philosophy of Robert Owen. uncountable

    "When Owenism and Chartism had burned themselves out, England had become poorer by that substance out of which the Anglo-Saxon ideal of a free society could have been built up for centuries to come."

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"When Owenism and Chartism had burned themselves out, England had become poorer by that substance out of which the Anglo-Saxon ideal of a free society could have been built up for centuries to come."

Etymology

From Owen + -ism.

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