clubbism en · NOUN
Etymology
From club + -ism.
Meanings
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(archaic, uncountable) clubmanship; cliquishness
The unwholesome clubbism of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society was prominently noticed by us upon the occasion of the exclusion of Dr. Murphy from the Council, notoriously upon the ground of his not belonging to the College of Physicians of London.
1853, Association Medical Journal, volume 1, page 1028: