"creaturism" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: creature + -ism Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|creature|ism}} creature + -ism Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} creaturism (uncountable)
  1. animalistic behaviour Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-creaturism-en-noun-aPxQFYIn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ism

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          "text": "The selfishness of this sort, with reverence I write it, is no more creaturism than it is creatorism. For a being that acts, whether created or uncreated, must act from some principle; and if that principle is good, the conduct flowing from it must certainly bestow pleasure.",
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          "text": "[…] abolitionists failed to take into account […] the negro's native creaturism. After their liberation, the negroes mistook license for liberty. They gathered in the towns, gave themselves over to creature pleasures, and forsook the useful habits of duty which slavery had instilled.",
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