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Definition of Civism
1. n. State of citizenship.
Definition of Civism
1. Noun. citizenship ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Civism
1. good citizenship [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Civism
Literary usage of Civism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The history of the French revolution, tr. with notes by F. Shoberl by Thomas Carlyle, Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers (1838)
"Dom Gerle* had a certificate of civism signed by Robespierre, and that in
Catherine's mattress had been found a letter in which she called Robespierre her ..."
2. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl, John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) (1844)
"... stated what he had not done the preceding day, that Dom Gerle* had a certificate
of civism signed by Robespierre, and that in Catherine's mattress had ..."
3. ... The French Revolution by Hippolyte Taine (1885)
"Civil religion.—National education.—Measures for equality.—Obligatory civism.—The
recasting and reduction of human nature to the Jacobin type. ..."
4. Lexicographia-neologica Gallica: The Neological French Dictionary by William Dupré (1801)
"... grant certificates of civism to citizens-u>i'/;Wi it, ie civism. ...
un frein—Claims devoid of civism to which it is time to put a stop.) See civisme. ..."
5. The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History by William Holl, Neville Wood, Edward Mammatt (1839)
"In the cold, heartless, and uncharitable civism, was comprehended all the virtues of
... Rousseau, though he well knew that the civism of the ancients was ..."
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