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Definition of Philistinism

Philistinism
Philistinism Phi*lis"tin*ism, n. The condition, character, aims, and habits of the class called Philistines. See Philistine, 3. [Recent] --Carlyle. On the side of beauty and taste, vulgarity; on the side of morals and feeling, coarseness; on the side of mind and spirit, unintelligence, -- this is Philistinism. --M. Arnold.

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- and Philistinism Nabokov, Lectures on Literature, lecture on Madame Bovary Wikiquote has quotations related to Philistinism. Look up philistinism or philistine...
- socially and culturally determined by their economic materialism and philistinism, a social identity famously mocked in Molière's comedy Le Bourgeois gentilhomme...
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- Purple, they're just one-hit wonders.' How can you deal with that kind of Philistinism, you know?". Ian Gillan also commented, "I've fought all my life against...
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- Society, pp. 268–275 Vandersleyen, Claude (1985). "Le dossier egyptien des Philistins". In Lipiński, Edward (ed.). The Land of Israel: Cross-roads of Civilizations :...
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- writing endless propaganda doggerel, and the stifling conformism and philistinism of the World State make him restive. Helmholtz is ultimately exiled to...
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