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Clannishness   Listen
noun
clannishness  n.  
1.
A tendency to associate with only a select group.
Synonyms: cliquishness, exclusiveness.
2.
A tendency to associate with only one's own clan; the propensity to display the sentiments, habits, and prejudices of one's own clan.





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"Clannishness" Quotes from Famous Books



... affection again. He spoke with kindly regard for his wife, but she played little or no part in his account. And Jack had only a faint memory of his mother, for she had died when he was seven. His father filled his eyes. His father's enemies were his. Family ties superimposed on clan clannishness, which is the blood heritage of the Highland Scotch, made it impossible for him to feel otherwise. That blow with a pike pole was a blow directed at his own face. He took up his father's feud instinctively, ...
— Poor Man's Rock • Bertrand W. Sinclair


Words linked to "Clannishness" :   snobbishness, clannish, cliquishness, snobbism, snobbery


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