exclusive attachment to one's own group, party, or nation 专一主义,排他主义 ■the principle of leaving each state in an empire or federation free to govern itself and promote its own interests, without reference to those of the whole (帝国或联邦中)各州(国)自主独立的原则 ■(Theology)the doctrine that some but not all people are elected and redeemed (神学)特殊恩宠论
early 19th cent.: from French particularisme, modern Latin particularismus, and German Partikularismus, based on Latin particularis 'concerning a small part'