Chartism

chartism English Etymology From en charter chart(er) -ism, named after the People's Charter of 1838, laying out the movement's six main aims. Pronunciation en en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Chartism.wav Southern England Proper noun s en historical A working-class movement for political and social reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century. 162 An insincere world; a godless untruth of a world! It is out of this, as I consider, that the whole tribe of social pestilences, French Revolutions, Chartisms, and what not, have derived their being,—their chief necessity to be. II She had been rather fond of society, and much admired and run after before her marriage; and the London world to which she had belonged pitied poor Fanny Evelyn when she married the young clergyman, and went to settle in that smoky hole Turley; a very nest of Chartism and Atheism, in a part of the country which all the decent families had had to leave for years. 103 Chartism therefore, though a genuine popular movement, was incomplete in its aims and knowledge; the time was not yet come and it could not triumph openly; but it would be a mistake to say that it failed utterly: at least it kept alive the holy flame of discontent; it made it possible for us to attain to the political goal of democracy, and thereby to advance the cause of the people by the gain of a stage from whence could be seen the fresh gain to be aimed at. en Queen Victoria w:Lytton Strachey 1921 https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1265/pg1265-images.html The dangers of this revolutionary ferment were grave; even in England Chartism was rampant—a sinister movement, which might at any moment upset the Constitution and abolish the Monarchy. 167 When Owenism and Chartism had burned themselves out, England had become poorer by that substance out of which the Anglo-Saxon ideal of a free society could have been built up for centuries to come. Related terms en Chartist Translations a movement for political and social reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century Arabic: ar مِيثَاقِيَة Armenian: hy չարտիզմ Azerbaijani: az çartizm Basque: eu kartismo Belarusian: be чартызм m Catalan: ca cartisme m Czech: cs chartisté Dutch: nl chartisme n Esperanto: eo Ĉartismo Finnish: fi chartismi French: fr chartisme m Galician: gl cartismo m German: de Chartismus m Greek: el χαρτισμός m Italian: it cartismo m Japanese: ja チャーティズム chātizumu Kazakh: kk чартизм Korean: ko 차티즘 Kyrgyz: ky чартизм Occitan: oc cartisme m Polish: pl czartyzm m Portuguese: pt cartismo m Russian: ru чарти́зм m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh чартѝзам m Latin: sh čartìzam m Slovene: sl čartizem m Spanish: es cartismo m Swedish: sv chartism c Turkish: tr çartizm Ukrainian: uk чарти́зм m Welsh: cy Siartiaeth f en History of the United Kingdom UK politics