standpatism

stand·pat·tism

[stand-pat-iz-uhm]
noun
belief in or the practice of resisting or refusing to accept change, especially in politics.
Also, stand·pat·ism.


Origin:
1900–05, Americanism; standpat + -ism

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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