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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Pragmatism

/prăg'-mət-ĭzˌ-əm/ · Prag·ma·tism · IPA /ˈpɹæɡmətɪzəm/
01 n. The quality or state of being pragmatic; in literature, the pragmatic, or philosophical, method.
  1. 1.
    The quality or state of being pragmatic; in literature, the pragmatic, or philosophical, method.
    “The narration of this apparently trifling circumstance belongs to the pragmatism of the history.” — A. Murphy.