particularist

plural particularists

1. One who holds to particularism.

   On this point there was no difference between mercantilists and feudalists, between crowned planners and vested interests, between centralizing bureaucrats and conservative particularists.

   1957 [1944], Karl Polanyi, chapter 6, in The Great Transformation, Beacon Press: Boston, page 70

comparative more particularist · superlative most particularist

1. lifestyleAdhering to particularism.
2. Showing excessive devotion to one's own region, nation, party etc.

   The province's identity was fixed on traditionalist and historical attachment to particularist privilege.

   2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 272

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   And what does the moderate Left have to offer? Only more redistribution, more public assistance, and particularist concern for particular groups that can claim victim status, from the sublime peak of elderly, handicapped, black lesbians down to the merely poor.

   1994 April 7, Edward Luttwak, “Why Fascism is the Wave of the Future”, in London Review of Books, volume 16, number 07, →ISSN

   Synonyms: partisan