underdogism

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noun

Tenacious support for the underdog, or disadvantaged party

Scrabble 16

Meanings

noununderdogism (uncountable)

alternative underdoggism

  1. uncountableTenacious support for the underdog, or disadvantaged party

    That creed, as it emerges from a study of the sacred oxen, is underdogism, which may be called egalitarianism or the yearning to level; […]

    1980, Lester O'Shea, Tampering with the Machinery, →ISBN, page 131

Origin

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