etatism

[ey-tah-tiz-uhm]

noun

1. state socialism.

Other Word Forms

• etatist adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of etatism¹

1920–25; < French étatisme, equivalent to état state ( Old French estat < Latin status status ) + -isme -ism

Example Sentences

Though Roosevelt was a Whig, an individualist, and a man who hated over- centralisation, abhorred administrative tyranny, and loathed Etatism, he never failed to pay due homage to the nation personified.

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