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English
Etymology
From ultra + -ism.
Noun
ultraism (countable and uncountable, plural ultraisms)
- Radicalism or political extremism.
1838, Vermont Anti-Slavery Society, Fourth Annual Report of the Vermont Anti-Slavery Society, page 26:We glory in such ultraism—the ultraism which says that “all men are created equal— […] the ultraism which treats man as an intelligent and immortal being, and not as an article of merchandize and traffic— […]
1847, Eliphalet Nott, Lectures on Temperance, A.M. Moffat, published 1858, page 176:With all that tendency to ultraism said to prevail at present, it may be doubted whether evangelists might not even now be found who, though in health, would require no such license for such a liberty; […]
- (poetry) A Spanish poetic movement opposed to modernism.
1981, Thorpe Running, Borges' Ultraist Movement and its Poets, Lathrup Village, Mich.: International Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 1:The eight young signers of this “Ultra manifesto” could not have known at the time how accurate and prescient their declaration was. Spanish ultraism, born as a movement with that document, would be distinguished, ironically, by its indiscriminate and eclectic borrowings from the other European vanguard tendencies.
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Etymology
Borrowed from German Ultraismus.
Noun
ultraism n (uncountable)
- ultraism
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