[f. Lud or Ludd (see next) + -ISM.] The practices of the Luddites.
1812. Chron., in Ann. Reg., 115. Several persons have been apprehended [at Huddersfield] on various charges of Luddism.
1817. Ann. Reg., 79. That atrocious system of combination, outrage, and hired assassination, which has prevailed in some of the midland counties, under the name of Luddism.
1893. Athenæum, 5. Aug., 189/1. Her family on both sides had lived in the thick of Luddism.
