moderatism

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a political philosophy of avoiding the extremes of left and right by taking a moderate position or course of action

From moderate + -ism.

They are surrounded on all sides by degradation and darkness; they have just escaped from ages of proscription; books are few among their mountains; and they have suffered, too, from the inroads of French infidelity; an age of Moderatism has passed over them, as over ourselves; and from these evils they have not yet completely recovered. — Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber : $b or, The influence of Romanism on trade, justice, and knowledge, J. A. (James Aitken) Wylie

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