different between condition vs proletarianism

English

Etymology

From Middle English condicioun, from Old French condicion (French condition), from Latin condicio. Unetymological change in spelling due to confusion with conditio.

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?nd?sh??n, IPA^(key): /k?n?d???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

condition (countable and uncountable, plural conditions)

1. A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
2. A requirement or requisite.

3. (law) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
4. The health status of a medical patient.

   Synonym: fettle

5. A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness.
6. The state or quality.
7. A particular state of being.

8. (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• conditional
• precondition

Related terms

• condition subsequent
• in condition
• statement of condition

Translations

Verb

condition (third-person singular simple present conditions, present participle conditioning, simple past and past participle conditioned)

1. To subject to the process of acclimation.

2. To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.

3. To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
4. (transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.
5. To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
6. (transitive) To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
7. (transitive) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
8. (transitive) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).

   (Can we find and add a quotation of McElrath to this entry?)

9. (US, colleges, transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college.

10. To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.

Derived terms

• air-condition
• conditioner
• precondition
• recondition

Translations

French

Etymology

From Middle French condition, from Old French condicion, Borrowed from Latin condici?, condici?nis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.di.sj??/

Noun

condition f (plural conditions)

1. term, condition
2. condition, state

   en bonne condition - In good condition

3. social status, walk of life

   Le couple se contentait de soirées entre amis de conditions diverses. — The couple was content with partying with friends from all walks of life.

Derived terms

• à condition que
• à condition de
• condition suffisante
• conditionnel
• conditions de vie

Further reading

• “condition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French condicion, from Latin condicio

Noun

condition f (plural conditions)

1. condition (state, quality)

Descendants

• French: condition

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)