[f. as prec. + -ISM.] The principle or practice of being exclusive; systematic exclusiveness.
1834. Tait’s Mag., I. 598. Exclusivism,—or the principle of keeping others without a certain pale, and boasting of being within ourselves. Ibid. (1840), VII. 798. That spirit of gain or exclusivism which has seized those who are called the owners of the streams.
1887. Lang, Myth, Ritual & Relig., II. 280. We may deprecate the charge of exclusivism.
