Lost Cause

English

Etymology

Derived from the generic term lost cause.

Proper noun

the Lost Cause

  1. The belief that the Confederate cause during the American Civil War was just and not related to slavery.
    • 1993, Journal of Historical Geography‎:
      Also implicit was the idea that all southerners accepted the basic tenets of the Lost Cause myth and concurred in this celebration of the Confederacy.

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