What does tokenist mean?
Tokenist means Pertaining to or indicative of tokenism..
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/ˈtəʊk(ə)nɪst/ · adjective
Pertaining to or indicative of tokenism..
The question of whether women could be masons at all was hotly debated, and though many women did join, this was usually in affiliative ‘lodges of adoption’, which were restricted to a tokenist, decorative and spectatorial role.
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Tokenist means Pertaining to or indicative of tokenism..
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The question of whether women could be masons at all was hotly debated, and though many women did join, this was usually in affiliative ‘lodges of adoption’, which were restricted to a tokenist, decorative and spectatorial role.
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