Meaning of chartism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The practices and methodologies of chartists.
   uncountable
2. A working-class movement for political and social reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century.
   historical

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Examples

“An insincere world; a godless untruth of a world! It is out of this, as I consider⟳, that the whole tribe of social pestilences, French Revolutions, Chartisms, and what not, have⟳ derived their being,—their chief necessity to be.”

“[…] when she married the young clergyman, and went to settle⟳ in that smoky hole Turley; a very nest of Chartism and Atheism, in a part of the country which all the decent families had had to leave⟳ for years.”

“Chartism therefore, though a genuine popular movement, was incomplete in its aims and knowledge; the time was not yet come⟳ and it could not triumph openly; but it would be a mistake⟳ to say⟳ that it failed utterly: […]”

“The dangers of this revolutionary ferment were grave; even in England Chartism was rampant—a sinister movement, which might at any moment upset⟳ the Constitution and abolish the Monarchy.”

“When Owenism and Chartism had burned themselves out, England had become⟳ poorer by that substance out of which the Anglo-Saxon ideal of a free society could have⟳ been built up for centuries to come⟳.”

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