Privilegism
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A social system in which some people have privileges that others do not. uncountable
"Again it is clear that Morris, carrying through his ideas of historic evolution, believes that privilegism (or oligarchy) on which most societies have sooner or later come to be based, and on which they have sooner or later fallen, must […]"
Example
More examples"Again it is clear that Morris, carrying through his ideas of historic evolution, believes that privilegism (or oligarchy) on which most societies have sooner or later come to be based, and on which they have sooner or later fallen, must […]"
Etymology
From privilege + -ism.
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