governmentalism
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of governmentalism
First recorded in 1840–50; governmental ( def. ) + -ism
Example Sentences
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When we look this high conception of the nation squarely in the eye, much of the talk about governmentalism seems at once irrelevant.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
There is also another kind of reason for being undismayed at the threat of governmentalism.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
Mr. Flower thinks that nationalism would mean governmentalism and paternalism—in the historic sense of those terms—raised to the highest degree; and that these are both bad things.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 by Various
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