quiet revolution

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noun
  1. 1

    A major social or political change attained without violence or significant upheaval.

  2. 2

    A period of vast sociopolitical change in Quebec in the 1960s characterized by secularization, a rise of Quebec nationalism, and the development of a welfare state.