exclusivist
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8.8
- adjective
- /ɪkˈskluːzɪvɪst/
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exclusivista
- The organization's exclusivist policies prevent many qualified applicants from joining.
- exclusivist monotheism
- exclusivist theology
- exclusivist views
Examples
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Instead, the Zionist project was conceived as an exclusivist project of "redeeming" an empty land for Jews.
Academic text (1990) -
The exclusivist theology of "no salvation outside the Church" structured negative encounters of conquest and colonialism.
Academic text (2007) -
Expect conflicts if you are sold on the exclusivist claims of Abrahamic faiths.
Academic text (2018) -
For example, is literary nationalism exclusivist and rejectionist?
Academic text (2011) -
In mainstream Christianity and Judaism, we tend to be intolerant; we adhere to an exclusivist theology of us versus them.
Academic text (2009) -
The rise of a brutal, ethnically exclusivist, Shiite-dominated government in Baghdad would further the perception of Iran as the ascendant regional power.
Academic text (2007) -
For example, the efforts to implement and superimpose a particular religious agenda on society as a whole, whether in terms of beliefs or morals, clearly grow out of the exclusivist understanding of pluralism.
Academic text (1998) -
Within some parts of historic Christianity, particularly of the exclusivist variety, that agenda has meant that pluralism, as a manifestation of evil, misunderstanding, and error, is something to be negated and changed.
Academic text (1998) -
Other movements promote transnational solidarities based on exclusivist and irredentist religious or ethno-racial identities focused on homelands.
Academic text (2008) -
Religious revivalist and caste-oriented politics often pose exclusivist policies, which make the pluralist's solution—negotiation of interests—seem utopian.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
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5.4
Only for one person, group, or purpose and not shared
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7.2
Not allowing certain people or groups to join activities
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8.2
Forming small groups that make other people feel unwelcome
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8.5
Supporting rules that keep certain people from joining a group
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8.2
Available only to a very small group of invited people
Accepting only one group or idea and not allowing other views
Having rules that stop some people from joining a group
Antonyms
How Exclusive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Exclusivist comes from the parts ex- 'out' and cludere 'to close', the same root you see in exclude and close. So an exclusivist policy 'closes out' people and limits who can join.