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A political orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes
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conservatism
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes [syn: conservativism ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1835, in reference to the Conservative party in British politics; from conservative + -ism . From 1840 in reference to conservative principles generally.
Wikipedia
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Conservatism as a political and social philosophy promotes retaining traditional social institutions in the context of culture and civilization . Some conservatives seek to preserve things as they are, emphasizing stability and continuity, while others, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE compassionate ▪ Critics worry that compassionate conservatism involves subcontracting social welfare to nutty evangelicals. ▪ Call it compassionate conservatism on offense. ▪ Critics also worry that compassionate ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conservatism \Con*serv"a*tism\, n. [For conservatism.] The disposition and tendency to preserve what is established; opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a conservative.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A political philosophy that advocates traditional values. 2 A risk-averse attitude or approach.
Usage examples of conservatism.
In a few years he came to control all the activity of the great firm whose unimpeached conservatism, safety, and financial weight lifted it like a cliff above the angry sea of the markets.
Even though the magical name of Gaius Marius was also being bruited about, the innate conservatism of countryfolk tended toward skepticism of his fitness to command in this new war.
Their resistance to enclosure of common land, pond drainage and woodland is perhaps better characterized as a struggle for capital resources with the agents of seigneurial estates than as blind conservatism.
The moral law of God has been heard as distinctly by them as by the upper, but they have not that discriminating judgment that enables them in every instance to distinguish between the morally wrong and the morally right, and yet there has been awakened in them a consciousness of certain things due to their fellowman and to their God that has kept them in a way that they could not be charged with wilful moral wrong, and their conservatism has placed them in a manner nearer to the morally right than to the morally wrong.
The fawn-colored sportcoat was cut with Continental flair, not British conservatism, and it was shaped out of the supplest of suedes.
His strong, squared features, his formidable scowl, his solid-looking head, his iron-gray hair, his positive and as it were categorical stride, his slow, precise way of putting a statement, the strange union of trampling radicalism in some directions and high-stepping conservatism in others, which made it impossible to calculate on his unexpressed opinions, his testy ways and his generous impulses, his hard judgments and kindly actions, were characteristics that gave him a very decided individuality.
The world of the Second Sphere has always struck Matt as entirely congruent with the ideology of the Party, for all the continuing conservatism and capitalism of the elder species.
Ronald Reagan, that icon of conservatism, had a better environmental record on this front: his administration ordered that cars get more mile's per gallon.
The party views of Conservatism are, must be, founded, we should remember, on an intimate acquaintance with her in the situations where she is almost unrestrictedly free and her laughter rings to confirm the sentences of classical authors and Eastern sages.
He clung to his mistrust the more because of a warning he had from the silenced natural voice: somewhat as we may behold how the Conservatism of a Class, in a world of all the evidences showing that there is no stay to things, comes of the intuitive discernment of its finality.
Furies of Conservatism would in a shortly antecedent day have been hissing and snakily lashing, hounding her to expulsion.
She felt the time had come to act but, in keeping with her adopted Swiss conservatism, decided to tack on an extra decade for good measure.
Her martyrdom, murder, and the subsequent swing to extreme conservatism under the Regency of Danvan Hastur, ended this period of friendly relations between the two societies, and by the time of The Bloody Sun, few Terrans and fewer Darkovans even remembered that there had been years when Terran and Darkovan had co-existed on such amiable terms.
It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.
The thing that is really deadly to both is Conservatism of the half-hearted modern kind.