communalism

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun the practice of communal living and common ownership
noun loyalty and commitment to the interests of your own minority or ethnic group rather than to society as a whole

From communal + -ism.

“Good humour,” he writes in 1707,[277] “is not only the best security against enthusiasm, but the best foundation of piety and true religion.” Even as late as 1766, when the spirit of enthusiasm was again abroad, aristocratic Horace Walpole sounds the old note against the new communalism in his account of a sermon which he heard Wesley preach at Bath; the preacher “exalted his voice, and acted very ugly enthusiasm.” Enthusiasm, however, was now rife in science itself; still blocked on the theological side, it turned to nature and what lay undiscovered in her domain. — The Beginnings of Poetry, Francis Barton Gummere

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