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Etymology

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From underdog +‎ -ism.

Noun

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underdogism (uncountable)

  1. Tenacious support for the underdog, or disadvantaged party
    • 1980, Lester O'Shea, Tampering with the Machinery[1], →ISBN, page 131:
      That creed, as it emerges from a study of the sacred oxen, is underdogism, which may be called egalitarianism or the yearning to level; []

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