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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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