[f. COSMOPOLITE + -ISM. Cf. F. cosmopolitisme.] = COSMPOLITANISM.
1797. W. Taylor, in Monthly Rev., XXIV. 515. To found an academy for educating young men in the principles of cosmopolitism.
1809–10. Coleridge, Friend (1865), 189. The false philosophy … which would persuade him that cosmopolitism is nobler than nationality.
1840. Mill, Diss. & Disc. (1859), II. 284. That general fusion of races and nations, which … prepared the way for the cosmopolitism of modern times.
