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Class feeling

noun

Feelings of envy and resentment of one social or economic class for toward another.

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"Class feeling" Quotes from Famous Books

... trace the fact that, ever since the establishment of commercialism on the ruins of feudality, there has been growing a steady feeling on the part of the workers that they are a class dealt with as a class, and in like manner to deal with others; and that as this class feeling has grown, so also has grown with it a consciousness of the antagonism between their class and the class which employs it, as the phrase goes; that is to say, which lives ...

— Signs of Change • William Morris

... loyalty. Whatever you have done, I believe you were right. And, right or wrong, I—I am on your side. But I wonder why you have been so good to me. Was it a sort of class feeling?" ...

— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... competent because they aren't afraid of poverty. Maybe they are motived by hope of getting on in the world and not motived by the terror of slipping down. Does that not make them stand by the shop instead of working against it? Isn't it a developed middle class feeling that accepts the shop as 'their kind ...

— The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me • William Allen White

Words linked to "Class feeling" : hostility, enmity, ill will