different between advancement vs proletarianism

English

Alternative forms

• advancemente (obsolete)
• advauncement (obsolete)
• advauncemente (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English avancement, Old French avancement. See advance.

Morphologically advance +? -ment

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æd?væns.m?nt/, /?d?væns.m?nt/

Noun

advancement (countable and uncountable, plural advancements)

1. The act of advancing, ; promotion to a higher place or dignity

   Synonyms: progression, improvement, furtherance
2. The state of being advanced
3. An advance of money or value; payment in advance.
4. (law) Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.

Translations

References

• advancement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French avancement, with the d added back to reflect the Latin.

Noun

advancement m (plural advancemens)

1. advance (forward movement)

Descendants

• French: avancement

English

Etymology

proletarian +? -ism; compare proletarism.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pr?'l?tâ?r??n?z?m, IPA^(key): /?p???l??t?????n?z?m/
• (General American) enPR: pr?'l?tâ?r??n?z?m, IPA^(key): /?p?o?l??t??i.?n?z?m/
• Hyphenation: pro?le?tar?i?an?ism

Noun

proletarianism (usually uncountable, plural proletarianisms)

1. (uncountable) The political character and practice of the proletariat; advocacy or advancement of the proletariat’s interests.
2. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being a proletarian.
3. (countable) A proletarian word or turn of phrase; a vulgarism.
   • 1973, Flying, volume 92, page 8:

     The scatological proletarianisms of Don Jonz reflect poorly on your heretofore high level of editorial standards.

   • 1992, Thomas Burns McArthur (editor), The Oxford Companion to the English language, page 553:

     There is a fine dividing line between the everyday sensationalism of popular and tabloid journalism and the parodies in such publications as the British satirical magazine Private Eye, which uses proletarianisms in such headlines as The Royals, dontcha lovem!

   • 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.

4. (uncountable, rare) Proletarians regarded as a class; the proletariat.

Derived terms

• proletarianise, proletarianised, proletarianising

References

• “prole?tarianism” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989)
• “proletarianism, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (draft revision, June 2007)