Sectionalism

Definition: Sectionalism

Sectionalism

Noun

1. A partiality for some particular place.

Synonyms: Sectionalism

Synonyms: localism (n), provincialism (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sectionalism

English words defined with "sectionalism": Sectionality. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Sectionalism

Domain	Title
Books	A House Divided: Sectionalism and Civil War, 1848-1865 (American Moment) (reference) Development of Southern Sectionalism 1819-1848 (reference) Sectionalism and American Political Development, 1880-1980 (reference) Sectionalism in American Politics: 1774-1787 (reference) Sectionalism unmasked (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Sectionalism

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Franklin Pierce	1853-1857	The field of calm and free discussion in our country is open, and will always be so, but never has been and never can be traversed for good in a spirit of sectionalism and uncharitableness.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Sectionalism

"Sectionalism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sectionalism" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	4	175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sectionalism

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
sectionalism	25
civil sectionalism war	2
definition sectionalism	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Sectionalism

Language		Translations for "sectionalism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		sektoralizëm. (various references)

Arabic		‏حماية مصالح مجموعة. (various references)

Bulgarian		регионализъм, местен патриотизъм (localism, provincialism). (various references)

Chinese		地方主义. (various references)

French		défense des intérêts d'un groupe. (various references)

German		Kleinstaaterei. (various references)

Greek		τμηματισμόσ, τοπικισμόσ (localism). (various references)

Hungarian		lokálpatriotizmus (localism, parochialism, provincialism). (various references)

Italian		campanilismo (localism, parochialism). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		分派主義 (sectarianism). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぶ�"ぱしゅぎ (sectarianism). (various references)

Pig Latin		ectionalismsay

Portuguese		regionalismo (locality, provincialism). (various references)

Russian		сектантство (dissent, sectarianism). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		regionalizam (regionalism). (various references)

Spanish		faccionalismo (factionalism). (various references)

Turkish		bölgecilik (regionalism). (various references)

Ukranian		сектантство (sectarianism). (various references)

Vietnamese		chủ nghĩa địa phương óc bè phái. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Sectionalism

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sectionalism": sectionalisms. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Sectionalism"

Words rhyming with "sectionalism" (pronounced 'Sec"tion*al*ism'): Abolitionism, Absenteeism, Absinthism, Absolutism, Academicism, Academism, Accidentalism, Achromatism, Acosmism, Acrobatism, Acrotism, Actinism, Adiaphorism, AEstheticism, Africanism, Agnosticism, Agonism, Agrarianism, Agriculturism, Albinism, Albinoism, Alcoholism, Alienism, Allodialism, Allomerism, Allomorphism, Allotheism, Alphabetism, Altruism, Amateurism, Americanism, Amorphism, Anabaptism, Anachorism, Anachronism, Anacrotism, Anagrammatism, Analogism, Anamorphism, Anarchism, Anathematism, Anatocism, Anatomism, Anchoretism, Andabatism, Aneurism, Anglicanism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Anglo-Saxonism. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Sectionalism

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-l-m-n-o-s-s-t"
	-2 letters: actionless, assoilment, coastlines, encomiasts, lanosities, lentissimo, melanistic, militances, mislocates, moniliases, sectionals, socialites.
	-3 letters: actinisms, alienisms, alienists, alimonies, camisoles, canoeists, cessation, coastline, coinmates, colistins, colitises, encomiast, inelastic, insolates, iotacisms, isoclines, laconisms, limonites, melanists, melanitic, melanotic, messianic, militance, misatones, mislocate, monastics, mosaicist, salicines, sciential, scientism, sectional, semantics, semiotics, semitonal, semitonic, semolinas, silicates, silicones, simoniacs.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-l-m-n-o-s-s-t"
	+1 letter: neoplasticism, sectionalisms.
	+2 letters: ceremonialists, neoplasticisms.
	+3 letters: emulsifications, exceptionalisms, miscorrelations.
	+4 letters: aluminosilicates, compensabilities, controversialism, conventionalisms.
	+5 letters: controversialisms, monosyllabicities.
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