[f. prec. + -ISM.]

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  1.  The practice or manner of things colonial.

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1864.  Eliz. Murray, E. Norman, I. 48. I daresay she will be a nice motherly person, and untainted by colonialism.

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1883.  American, VI. 46. The narrow trammels of colonialism.

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  b.  A practice or idiom peculiar to or characteristic of a colony. (Cf. provincialism.)

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1887.  Mrs. D. Daly, Digging & Squatting, 239. To use a colonialism, ‘the place was going ahead.’

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  2.  The colonial system or principle.

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1886.  Dicey, Eng. Case agst. Home Rule (ed. 2), 273. English Colonialism works well enough.

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1889.  Sir H. Robinson, in Standard, 20 May, 3/1. There are three competing influences at work in South Africa. They are Colonialism, Republicanism, and Imperialism.

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