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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.
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
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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