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Meaning of expatriatism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

The condition of being an expatriate, especially a deliberate one

countable, uncountable

Examples

“The traveler ventures into the world of exile and expatriatism, two terms that Edward Said defines in his essay "Reflections on Exile." Whereas exile connotes the negative, expatriatism carries more positive associations.”
“More important, her colonial expatriatism placed her in an extraordinary lineage of similarly positioned women writers – Olive Schreiner, Katherine Mansfield, and Jean Rhys – who had helped generate both “the modern” as a literary concept …”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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