Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CHART'ISM
CHART'ISM, n. [from charter.]
In England, the bitter, deep-seated discontent of the laboring classes of people, the distinctions which exist in society, and the distresses which they suffer from low wages, or from want of employment and bread; accompanied with a desire to effect a radical reform, and often, with violent and unlawful efforts to obtain it.
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