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- noun Attachment to the principles of the
Orange Order .
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Examples
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The Orangeism which is an inherited hysteria will not yield to reason.
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There is another kind of Orangeism, that which has begun to think, and the Orangeism that has begun to think is already converted.
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The Orangeism which is merely an instrument of exploitation and domination will not yield to reason.
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The name Unionist is taken by the way - and we wouldn't want it - it is despised by many people that are natural conservatives but associate it sadly, but correctly with Orangeism.
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But nothing lasts under the sun, as your hanner knows; Orangeism began to go down; the
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A further instance of the decline of rabid Orangeism might be cited.
The Life Story of an Old Rebel John Denvir
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At an aggregate meeting in 1815, he alluded to him, as the worthy champion of Orangeism.
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke
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Orangeism in its dying agonies, should have been called upon to encounter great toil and anxiety is a truth too obvious to need illustration.
International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850 Various
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Orangeism, of a body I used to hear them speaking of when I was a boy in
The Life Story of an Old Rebel John Denvir
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What has fostered the Anti-Irish feeling among Irish Protestants for the last hundred years has undoubtedly been the fell system of Orangeism, which has caused so much hatred and bloodshed among men who, whatever their race or creed, are now children of the one common soil.
The Life Story of an Old Rebel John Denvir
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