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
The English rule, if often weak, had never proved tyrannical, and they had a great dread of French taxes and French officialism.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
The description of the intrigue and officialism, the perpetual panic in which the foreign professors at the university lived, given by Hearn in a letter to Ellwood Hendrik, is extremely funny.
From Lafcadio Hearn by Kennard, Nina H.
One feels sure he would be of that forlorn hope of civilization that carries on a sporadic and ineffective war against officialism and militarism on the one hand, and puritanism and superstition on the other.
From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive
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