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Definition of Officialism
1. n. The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism.
Definition of Officialism
1. Noun. The rigid, perfunctory and literal adherence to official duties and regulations ¹
2. Noun. Officials collectively ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Officialism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Officialism
Literary usage of Officialism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nineteenth Century (1898)
"FRENCH officialism IT is undeniable that France maintains, out of State, county,
... officialism is not the only sore that is eating into the French nation. ..."
2. Norman Institutions by Charles Homer Haskins (1918)
"Wace, himself a person of some knowledge of the law,1" gives us a picture of the
growth of officialism and litigation in his own time in the complaints ..."
3. History of the Romans Under the Empire by Charles Merivale (1865)
"officialism.—The proconsuls and governors of the provinces: the municipal privileges
of the provinces.—4. The military establishment: 5. ..."
4. Modern Ireland: Its Vital Questions, Secret Societies and Government by George Sigerson (1869)
"IL officialism AND THE IRISH CONVICT SYSTEM. THE amount of despotic power which
officialism occasionally ventures to usurp in Ireland may be found ..."
5. The Roman Empire: Essays on the Constitutional History from the Accession of by Frederick William Bussell (1910)
"CHAPTER I THE NEW SYSTEM OF CASTE AND officialism ; THE SEVERANCE OF CIVIL AND
MILITARY ORDERS; AND THE INFLUX OF ALIENS § 1. LET us now turn to our second ..."
6. Christ in Creation and Ethical Monism by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1899)
"1898 officialism BRETHREN OF THE GRADUATING CLASS :—Few classes of the seminary
have done more regular or creditable work than yours. ..."
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