Etymology
Origin of officialism
Example Sentences
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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
What is inhuman in modern life is officialism.
From Slate • Jun. 16, 2018
He looked round the room defiantly, as if expecting applause for this display of sound common-sense, opposed to the coroner's tiresome officialism.
From The Heart of a Woman by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
Editors, behind their officialism, are human just like other folks, for they think and they work, they laugh and they play, they marry—just as others do.
From Mr. Punch in Bohemia by Various
To cast him out, it would be necessary to cast out the demon of officialism; and we shall see what this bit of knowledge presently implied.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume I. by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
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