proletarianism

Etymology

 * compare.

Noun

 * 1)  The political character and practice of the proletariat; advocacy or advancement of the proletariat’s interests.
 * 2)  The state, quality, or condition of being a proletarian.
 * 3)  A proletarian word or turn of phrase; a vulgarism.
 * 4) * 2005, John Sutherland, biographical note to H. G. Wells’ The History of Mr Polly (Penguin Classics):
 * Sadly, even the ‘genteel’ proletarianisms of Polly and his class are nowadays only normally heard among citizens over the age of fifty. In a few years that richly nuanced dialect will be as dead as Sanskrit.
 * 1)  Proletarians regarded as a class; the proletariat.
 * Sadly, even the ‘genteel’ proletarianisms of Polly and his class are nowadays only normally heard among citizens over the age of fifty. In a few years that richly nuanced dialect will be as dead as Sanskrit.
 * 1)  Proletarians regarded as a class; the proletariat.