Also cliqueism. [f. CLIQUE + -ISM.] The spirit, principles, and methods, of a clique; party exclusiveness, cliquishness.
1852. W. Wilks, Hist. Half Century, 264. The corporations, in which the rancour of sectarian exclusiveness was added to the corruption of official cliqueism.
1865. Cornh. Mag., XI. 678. The smaller the cliques the more rigid the cliquism.
1884. A. Forbes, Chinese Gordon, v. 206. British India is a network of cliquism and favoritism.
