Definition of Chartism

1. Noun. The principles of a body of 19th century English reformers who advocated better social and economic conditions for working people.

Generic synonyms: Ethic, Moral Principle, Value Orientation, Value-system
Derivative terms: Chartist

Definition of Chartism

1. n. The principles of a political party in England (1838-48), which contended for universal suffrage, the vote by ballot, annual parliaments, equal electoral districts, and other radical reforms, as set forth in a document called the People's Charter.

Definition of Chartism

1. Proper noun. (historical) A movement for political and social reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century. ¹

2. Noun. (finance) The practices and methodologies of chartists. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chartism

1. the study of charts [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chartism

Charmaine
Charmat
Charmian
Charnley
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Charolais
Charon
Charonian
Charophyceae
Charpy impact test
Charriere
Charriere scale
Charronia
Charronia flavigula
Charters' method
Chartism (current term)
Chartist
Chartists
Chartres
Chartres blue
Chartreux
Charybdis
Chas
Chase
Chasid
Chasidic
Chasidim
Chasidism

Literary usage of Chartism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chartist Movement by Mark Hovell (1918)
"But, however imperfect they may be as set histories of Chartism, we ! ... If these records / I make it patent why Chartism failed, they give a shrewder ..."

2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"After 1842 militant Chartism steadily lost its hold on the best of the ... The Trade Unions drew apart from organised Chartism as the years passed. ..."

3. Readings in Modern European History: A Collection of Extracts from the by James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard (1909)
"That the Church of England and Chartism totally oppose 293. A each other, produce wholly different effects, and lead to widely clergyman's and utterly ..."

4. A History of Our Own Times: From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the by Justin Maccarthy (1879)
"He spoke at some length and with much complacency of Chartism as an agitation which had passed away. Some ten days afterwards occurred the most formidable ..."

5. The Chartist Movement in Its Social and Economic Aspects by Frank Ferdinand Rosenblatt (1916)
"CHAPTER I Chartism means the bitter discontent grown fierce and mad. ... PROTOTYPES OF Chartism THE term Chartism was coined in 1837 to designate a set of ..."

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