[f. as prec. + -ISM.] The club system. (First used in reference to the political clubs of the French Revolution.)
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev. (1857), II. III. ii. To passionate Constitutionalism … Clubbism will naturally grow to seem the root of all evil. Nevertheless Clubbism is not death, but rather new organisation and life out of death.
1859. Sala, Tw. round Clock (1861), 227. An incipient agitation for lady clubbism.
