particularIsm

[Eng. particular; -ism.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. A particular or minute description; a detailed statement. 2. The doctrine or practice of a state in a federation using its endeavor to promote its own particular interests, and conserve its own particular laws, as distinct from those of the federated whole. "Particularism-that is, the exce ive attachment to separate States is to be crushed out by having the empire made daily and hourly present to the mind of every one."- Saturday Review, March 25, 1882, p. 348. IMG:content-0699.png:[blocks in formation] A. As subst.: One who upholds the doctrine of particularism; spec if., one who holds the doctrine of particular election. [INFRALAPSARIAN, SUPRALAPSARIAN.] "The first saying must have been put into the mouth of Jesus by a Pauline Universalist; the second by a Judaic Particularist ." - Matthew Arnold : God and the Bible , p. 113. B. As adj .: Pertaining to the doctrine of particularism.