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1. The principles and practice of commerce; the commercial spirit. (Often disparaging.)
1849. Fraser’s Mag., XXXIX. 109. Young men in London, with their prurience, their effeminacy, their quill-driving commercialism.
1850. Kingsley, Alt. Locke, xxxix. The buy-cheap-and-sell-dear commercialism, in which he had been brought up!
1889. G. Gissing, Nether World, II. xi. 228. Commercialism had divorced art and the handicrafts.
2. A commercial custom, practice, expression.
1881. F. J. Crowest, Phases Mus. Eng., Contents, Musical Commercialisms.
1883. Athenæum, 3 March, 273. The excruciating commercialism ‘Maria wrote Mrs. Inchbald’ for ‘wrote to Mrs. Inchbald’ defaces almost every page.
