Etymology
Origin of officialism
Example Sentences
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What is inhuman in modern life is officialism.
From Slate • Jun. 16, 2018
It is the result in our days of stereotyped systems, of hard-and-fast rules, of centralization, of officialism, and of irresponsible authority.
From Slate • Jun. 16, 2018
It is not to deny that American officialism is rather peculiar on this point, but to inquire what it really is which makes America peculiar, or which is peculiar to America.
From What I Saw in America by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
It would be a mere matter of Government officialism, and there the affair would end.
From Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion by Mitford, Bertram
He undertook to restore sanity to Ireland—meaning, of course, Dublin, for officialism did not recognize the provinces—and he guaranteed to bring the Irish Parliament to its senses.
From The Viceroys of Ireland by O'Mahony, Charles
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