communalist
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- adjective
- /kəˈmjunəlɪst/
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comunalista
- While advocating for communalist principles, he emphasized the need to address the concerns of various religious groups equally.
Examples
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In the debate over communalist approaches, some argued that promoting the interests of a single community could fracture national unity.
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The communalist policies promoted by certain leaders have led to increased tension between different ethnic groups.
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All this is the result of acquiescence to chimerical, communalist, and salvationist solutions to real problems that beset the Arab world, like everywhere else.
Academic text (1995) -
As Sudhir Luxman Hendre, a Hindu writer noted for his communalist agitprop, noted, PREFORMATTED TABLE
Academic text (2002) -
There are other ironies at play: Communalist and Islamist ideologies today are also the product of the state educational system, which set the sense of Arab cultural history since the 19th century, but which emerged from this system after it had, in many respects, atrophied.
Academic text (1995) -
Edwige goes on to touch on the subject of the causes of poverty in the community of Roche Bois, explaining, "Politics and a communalist system that exists in Mauritius, additionally stigmatization makes matters worse."
Blog text (10) -
The MPRB, since its formation, acts to advocate, educate, involve, and inform its community of Roche Bois, which has been beset by poverty and exclusion in Mauritian society for many years on an educational, social, and communalist level.
Blog text (10) -
There has been a strong tendency for scholars writing from a liberal-secularist perspective to group the various strands of Hindu nationalist (communalist, fundamentalist) militancy into a relatively monolithic movement.
Academic text (1995) -
Although Kashmiris have articulated their concerns through reference to historical conditions, regional power equations, and ethnic identity politics, Indian nationalist narratives have presented the uprising in nationalist and communalist terms, with Kashmiris posing a threat to the ethno-religious order of the nation.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
Showing strong loyalty to one group and causing conflict with other groups
Cares only about the interests of one group, not about society as a whole
Causes a split within a religious group or organization
Someone shows strong support for one group inside an organization, causing division
Antonyms
How Sectarian
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Morphology
Etymology
Communalist comes from communal, which is linked to common and community and originally means 'shared' or 'belonging to a group'. So when communalist is used as an adjective it describes ideas or actions that put one community's interests first, which can increase division between groups.