"againstism" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1944, Benjamin Stolberg, Tailor's progress: the story of a famous union and the men who made it ..., Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., page 203",
          "text": "The new Administration had come in on a tidal wave of angry againstism — against Hoover, against Big Business, against the bankers and the speculators, whom the American people blamed severally and jointly for all their troubles.",
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          "ref": "1950, Collier's, volume 125, Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, page 9",
          "text": "The Republican party in those days was not a party of againstism or negativism.",
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          "ref": "1970, Sir Anthony Glyn (bart.), The blood of a Britishman, Hutchinson, page 248",
          "text": "'Againstism', it may be thought, is not a quality which would necessarily be welcomed among immigrants.",
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          "ref": "2007, John Foot, Winning at All Costs: A Scandalous History of Italian Soccer, Nation Books, page 314",
          "text": "There is a glorious tradition amongst Italian soccer fans of againstism - supporting whoever is playing against the team you hate.",
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          "ref": "2012, Bryan-Paul Frost, “Raymond Aron's Pedagogical Constitution and Pursuit of Liberal Education”, in John Von Heyking, Lee Trepanier, editors, Teaching in an Age of Ideology, Plymouth, United Kingdom: Lexington Books, published 2013, page 54",
          "text": "The protesters displayed what we might call a vague “againstism”: they were against the “government,” the “system,” “hierarchy,” “lack of opportunities,” and ultimately “consumer society” as a whole.",
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        "The perspective or activity of being against something, or of having a contrary demeanor in general; a pattern of repeated opposition or criticism."
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