Definition of "snobbism" []

• Snobbery. (noun)

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• "The reason no doubt was that the rentier-professional class was ceasing once and for all to have any real relationship with the soil; but at any rate there prevailed then, far more than now, a kind of snobbism of belonging to the country and despising the town."
• "RENTIER-professional class was ceasing once and for all to have any real relationship with the soil; but at any rate there prevailed then, far more than now, a kind of snobbism of belonging to the country and despising the town."
• "Just one thing about this: I WANT ONE, just make it from an ultra rare record and it’s exactly the kind of snobbism I’m going for!!!"