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privatism
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pri·vat·ism  (prv-tzm)
n.
The social position of being noncommittal to or uninvolved with anything other than one's own immediate interests and lifestyle.
priva·tist adj. & n.
priva·tistic adj.
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Recent scholarship has revised the traditional view that vendetta in late medieval society was a remnant of primitive or privatistic forms of government, arguing that despite occasional condemnation by religious and political leaders, violent conflict was seen by most as an ordinary social relation and that vendetta was recognized as a legitimate means for defense of one's interests.
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For all the critical elan with which a modish tradition was constructed that could appear, by turns, modernist and realist, universal and American, objectively true and subjectively expressive, profoundly human and obsessively privatistic, its effectivity was short lived.
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