"Lionism" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1959, Minter L. Wilson, The Light of Other Days, page 224:",
          "text": "We have learned that Lionism is a spirit . We have learned that an atmosphere has created Lionism, and that Lionism in return creates an atmosphere.",
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          "ref": "1986, Rashmi Mayur, Prem Ratan Vohra, Bombay by 2000 A.D., page 87:",
          "text": "The laudable aspects of the movement caught the imagination of the citizens of the world and soon Lionism became an international movement.",
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          "ref": "1991, Paul Martin, We Serve: A History of the Lions Clubs, page 22:",
          "text": "In Lionism, I feel we have such a stabilizer and inasmuch as it has been truly said that Lionsim represents a true cross-section of the best in citizenship, everywhere, much of our feeling of concern may to a very large extent at least be allayed.",
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          "ref": "2000, Tell: The Weekly Newsmagazine, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria: Tell Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11:",
          "text": "Sanusi says of his tenure as a Lions Club member: \"I have always believed that lionism and clubs alike are anti-Islamic but this disposition, however, changed when I was lured into the club by a friend. And upon realising its objectives, I promise not to rest on my oars in making Lions Club the desire of all who want to render service to humanity.\"",
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          "ref": "2000, Pepper Worthington, Big Daddy: The W. Roy Poole Story, page 122:",
          "text": "O is also for outstanding, that one word that better sums up his contributions to Lionism.",
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          "ref": "2005, Ola Vincent, Ola Vincent’s Speeches, Writings and Presentations: 1985–2004, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria: Macmillan Nigeria, →ISBN, page 449:",
          "text": "Thus lionism enshrined the doctrine of love, which binds humanity together.",
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          "ref": "2016–2017, T. M. Gunaraja, P. N. Gopinathan, “Past District Governors”, in The International Association of Lions Clubs (Lions Clubs International) District 324-A1: Lions Handbook, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu: Signpost Celfon.In Technology, page 52:",
          "text": "He [R. Ravichandran] joined lionism in 1985 in Lions Club of Madras Park Town.",
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          "ref": "2023, Bishnu Bajoria, My Journey in Lionism, page 8:",
          "text": "Lionism is a platform which gives enough opportunity to its members to develop their personalities and become better human beings.",
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          "ref": "1832 April, H[arriet] M[artineau], “Art. I.—Heads of the People. The ‘Lion’ of a Party. London, 1839. … [book review]”, in The London and Westminster Review, volume XXXII, number II, London: […] C[harles] Reynell, […], →OCLC, page 262:",
          "text": "The practice of \"Lionism\" originates in some feelings which are very good,—in veneration for intellectual superiority, and gratitude for intellectual gifts; and its form and prevalence are determined by the fact, that literature has reached a larger class, and interested a different order of people from any who formerly shared its advantages. A wise man might, at the time of the invention of printing, have foreseen the age of literary \"Lionism,\" and would probably have smiled at it as a temporary extravagance.",
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          "text": "So sudden; all common Lionism, which ruins innumerable men, was as nothing to this. […] [T]hese Lion-hunters were the ruin and death of [Robert] Burns. […] They gathered round him in his Farm; hindered his industry; no place was remote enough from them. He could not get his Lionism forgotten, honestly as he was disposed to do so.",
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          "text": "[John] Sterling […] glanced pertinently with victorious clearness, without spleen, though often enough with a dash of mockery, into its Puseyisms, Liberalisms, literary Lionisms, or what else the mad hour might be producing,—always prompt to recognise what grain of sanity might be in the same.",
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          "ref": "1980 December, Dennis Forsythe, “West Indian Culture through the Prism of Rastafarianism”, in R[alston] M[ilton] Nettleford, editor, Caribbean Quarterly: Rastafari, volume 26, number 4, Mona, Jamaica: Department of Extra-mural Studies, University of the West Indies, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 75:",
          "text": "Ultimately, then, the return to Lionism means destroying or transcending major ingredients of our inherited selves – albeit our acquired (slave) selves.",
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          "text": "Sanusi says of his tenure as a Lions Club member: \"I have always believed that lionism and clubs alike are anti-Islamic but this disposition, however, changed when I was lured into the club by a friend. And upon realising its objectives, I promise not to rest on my oars in making Lions Club the desire of all who want to render service to humanity.\"",
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          "text": "Thus lionism enshrined the doctrine of love, which binds humanity together.",
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          "text": "He [R. Ravichandran] joined lionism in 1985 in Lions Club of Madras Park Town.",
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          "text": "The practice of \"Lionism\" originates in some feelings which are very good,—in veneration for intellectual superiority, and gratitude for intellectual gifts; and its form and prevalence are determined by the fact, that literature has reached a larger class, and interested a different order of people from any who formerly shared its advantages. A wise man might, at the time of the invention of printing, have foreseen the age of literary \"Lionism,\" and would probably have smiled at it as a temporary extravagance.",
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          "text": "Ultimately, then, the return to Lionism means destroying or transcending major ingredients of our inherited selves – albeit our acquired (slave) selves.",
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