Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A view, opinion, custom, action, expression, or way of doing things that is peculiar to or characteristic of the continental part of Europe.
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- noun The adoption of common
policies amongst the countries of a particularcontinent (especially continental Europe)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Laurier group, was emerging from the disreputable mess known as continentalism, fathered by Goldwin Smith, who was beginning to be estimated for what he really was, a brilliant philosophical pamphleteer bent upon the obliteration of Canadian nationality.
The Masques of Ottawa Domino
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Chamberlain in 1903, this economic unity was called continentalism, which to Foster was the mother of annexation, and Free Trade Liberals were traitors to the Empire.
The Masques of Ottawa Domino
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Now that does not mean that we are going to come closer to the United States or that indeed we are going to be engulfed by them or that we are going to seek to have some kind of continentalism in North America.
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From 1896 to 1984, Canada was governed (with four short breaks of between a few months and a few years) by the Liberal Party - the party most like the US Democratic Party, and the one most inclined to endorse "continentalism" in economics, culture and politics.
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From 1896 to 1984, Canada was governed (with four short breaks of between a few months and a few years) by the Liberal Party - the party most like the US Democratic Party, and the one most inclined to endorse "continentalism" in economics, culture and politics.
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And the thing of it is I don't utterly dislike the woman, no matter how many times I poke fun at her for her faux continentalism or her desire to be the hipster Martha Stewart.
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I haven't the faintest idea how this could work I usually do foreign policy and comedy, but the idea that Michael Ignatieff might be capable of thinking not only outside the box of North American imperialism/continentalism but actually in opposition to it caught my attention.
Peace, order and good government, eh?: June 2008 Archives 2008
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"We cannot afford to return to the politics of regionalism, race of continentalism."
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As has so often happened, a strong manifestation of the pull toward north-south integration, or continentalism, was followed by a period of fear of the powerful neighbour, and a drawing together of the diverse elements of Canada.
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Recent speeches by the Chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada, the Leader of the Opposition, the Premier of Alberta, and a number of others, are a clear indication that the same old colonial attitude and the same old continentalism are very much alive in Canada.
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