civism

[ siv-iz-uhm ]

noun

1. good citizenship.

civism

/ ˈsɪvɪzəm /

noun

1. rare.
   good citizenship

Word History and Origins

Origin of civism¹

1785–95; < French civisme < Latin cīv ( is ) citizen + French -isme -ism

Word History and Origins

Origin of civism¹

C18: from French civisme, from Latin cīvis citizen

Example Sentences

As for the rest - it has to focus on cold blood and civism.

From The Guardian

As for the rest - it has to focus on cold blood and civism.

From The Guardian

Let him in civism adept, shun The spouter's bawling, and the Bobby's staff.

From Project Gutenberg

That this barnacle of blood-lust should leech itself upon the fair face of a modern civilization; that in this nineteen hundred and twelve epoch of obeisant civism, hedged about with emollient Christian culture—such a vast stratum of malignant strife should coil here, hidden amidst a congress of Nature's sublime artistry, is an irony at once awesome and hopelessly insoluble.

From Project Gutenberg

Men began to describe as “grand” and “picturesque” scenery hitherto summarized as “barren mountains covered in mist”; while Voltaire and Pope were at their height, the world began to realize that the Augustan age, in its zeal for rationality, civism and trim parterres, had neglected the wild freshness of an age when literature was a wild flower that grew on the common.

From Project Gutenberg