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groupuscule

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groupuscule [ˈgruːpəˌskjuːl]
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Usually derogatory a small group within a political party or movement
[from French: small group]


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The slightest hint of a new movement or groupuscule and it is instantly branded: a new trend or a new geography (Korea supplanting China, Latin America on the up) and the industry descends.
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Ultimately, the sect weakened itself, again like modern political groupuscules, by splitting into warring factions of various degrees of extremism, before it became both consolidated and confined within the Armenian, Coptic, and Syrian Jacobite Churches.
 
 
 
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