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From ancestor + -ism. Compare atavism, whose formation in French (before English borrowed it) had underlying parallel.
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Today it means: The emphasis of the importance of one's foremothers, forefathers or lineage: their veneration (in a nonreligious sense). Full definition →
From ancestor + -ism. Compare atavism, whose formation in French (before English borrowed it) had underlying parallel.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.