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contractarianism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
con-trac-tar-i-an-ism
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The political doctrine that the legitimacy of a government derives from a (normally unstated) contract between the government and the people (normally derived from an election)

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Etymology

From contractarian + -ism.

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What does contractarianism mean?
The political doctrine that the legitimacy of a government derives from a (normally unstated) contract between the government and the people (normally derived from an election)
Where does contractarianism come from?
From contractarian + -ism.

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