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conservatism

opposition to change, traditionalism, orthodoxy, moderation, inaction, preservation, conservativeness, unprogressiveness, ultraconservatism, reactionaryism, rightism, Toryism, Bourbonism, standpattism*; see also reaction 2, stability 1.

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(4) The ignorance and conservatism of the women.
There was in his character a peculiar mixture of conservatism and a keen sense of the requirements of the day.
This leads to autocracy in politics, fatalism in religion and conservatism in both.
In England a considerably less docile conservatism has been predominant.
Ritualistic conservatism may be instanced as a practical outcome of this feeling.

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