Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or of the nature of communalism: as, communalistic doctrines.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to communalism.

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  • adjective Pertaining to communalism.

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Examples

  • Rather than a benevolent "socialist" super power China, whose population is made up over 90% Han Chinese, will bestride the world as a racially homogeneous, and communalistic "Middle Kingdom."

    The China Syndrome 2010

  • And it was a far cry from the near euphoria brought about by Bolivian President Evo Morales 'denunciation of capitalism and call for a "communalistic socialism" that, he argued, offered the sole solution both for addressing climate change and for meeting the material needs of the world's poor.

    Robert S. Eshelman: From Cochabamba to Cancun 2010

  • Rather than a benevolent "socialist" super power China, whose population is made up over 90% Han Chinese, will bestride the world as a racially homogeneous, and communalistic "Middle Kingdom."

    The China Syndrome 2010

  • Rather than a benevolent "socialist" super power China, whose population is made up over 90% Han Chinese, will bestride the world as a racially homogeneous, and communalistic "Middle Kingdom."

    The China Syndrome 2010

  • Now this implies the following: because of factors in all four quadrants, the pluralistic stage in this country has been largely experienced as a communalistic stage, and SD has described that stage fairly accurately as the green meme.

    The Strange Death of Multiculturalism? William Harryman 2007

  • It is holistic, communalistic, driven by a Vital Force within us; and needs motivating.

    Something new out of Africa 2006

  • This view is holistic, communalistic, and recognises and responds to a vital force within humanity.

    Something new out of Africa 2006

  • This view is holistic, communalistic, and recognises and responds to a vital force within humanity.

    CONTENTS: 2006

  • It is holistic, communalistic, driven by a Vital Force within us; and needs motivating.

    CONTENTS: 2006

  • This confidence and trustfulness were the product of a civilization resting on communalistic feudalism; the people were kept as children in dependence on their feudal lord; they had to accept what he said and did; they were accustomed to that order of things from the beginning and had no other thought; on the whole too, without doubt, they received regular and kindly treatment.

    Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902

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