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French
Etymology
From larbin (“flunkey”) + -isme.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /laʁ.bi.nism/ ~ /laʁ.bi.nizm/
Noun
larbinisme m (plural larbinismes)
- flunkey-ism, servilism, sycophantism
1950, Aimé Césaire, Discours sur le colonialisme [Discourse on Colonialism]:Je parle de millions d’hommes à qui on a inculqué savamment la peur, le complexe d’infériorité, le tremblement, l’agenouillement, le désespoir, le larbinisme.- I speak of millions of men who have been wisely instructed in fear, inferiority complexes, trembling, kneeling, despair, servilism.
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