kaiserism

[ kahy-zuh-riz-uh m ]

/ ˈkaɪ zəˌrɪz əm /

autocratic rule, like that of a German kaiser.

Words nearby kaiserism

First recorded in 1910–15; kaiser + -ism

Carrying the heavy burden of Kaiserism seems no more to them than their day's work.
Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 3|Louis Raemaekers
The doom of kaiserism was written large on that Lincoln Highway in that army of resolute, slow-moving army trucks.
Under the Maples|John Burroughs
This is the beginning of the end of Kaiserism, if I'm any judge.
Air Service Boys in the Big Battle|Charles Amory Beach
It was a worse condition than kaiserism itself had ever set up.
The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons|William Z. Foster

This regime revives the worst methods of Kaiserism and holds its protecting hand over the bourgeois and capitalists of Germany.
The Red Conspiracy|Joseph J. Mereto