Typo in OED
    Fred Shapiro 
    fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
       
    Sun Oct 23 12:17:05 UTC 2005
    
    
  
The OED, s.v. _chauvinism_ has a definition including "Excessive loyalty
to or belief in the superiority of one's own kind of cause, and prejudice
against others."  I assume this is a typo for "own kind or cause."
Fred Shapiro
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