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Definition of Nepotism
1. Noun. Favoritism shown to relatives or close friends by those in power (as by giving them jobs).
Definition of Nepotism
1. n. Undue attachment to relations; favoritism shown to members of one's family; bestowal of patronage in consideration of relationship, rather than of merit or of legal claim.
Definition of Nepotism
1. Noun. The favoring of relatives or personal friends because of their relationship rather than because of their abilities. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nepotism
1. favoritism shown to a relative [n -S] : NEPOTIC [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nepotism
Literary usage of Nepotism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"One of these paths was the precipitous one of nepotism, which led to the most
hazardous aberrations. It has been maintained by contemporaries of this Pope, ..."
2. The Papal Conclaves, as They Were and as They are by Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1876)
"Fabio; Chigi, Alexander VII.—His character.—His modified nepotism. ... Curious
Connection between these phenomena and tho decrease of nepotism. ..."
3. The Papal Conclaves, as They Were and as They are by Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1876)
"His modified nepotism. —Difficulty of entirely abolishing nepotism. ...
Curious Connection between these phenomena and the decrease of nepotism. ..."
4. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Ralph Francis Kerr, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (1908)
"As to such a policy of nepotism as was pursued by * The reaction against the
traditional conviction of the nepotism of Leo X., held by Ranke and Gregorovius ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... of his grandnephews, whom he had himself educated and whom he loved dearly,
but he had such an aversion for nepotism that he firmly refused the request. ..."
6. Native Life in Travancore by Samuel Mateer (1883)
"nepotism. THE indigenous inhabitants of the Malabar Coast may be referred to ...
Amongst these may be named polyandry, polygamy, and nepotism in domestic ..."
7. Native Life in Travancore by Samuel Mateer (1883)
"nepotism. THE indigenous inhabitants of the Malabar Coast may be referred to ...
Amongst these may be named polyandry, polygamy, and nepotism in domestic ..."
8. Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson by Gideon Welles (1911)
"... among the Radicals — General Dbc resigns as Minister to France — Hawley urged
for Grant's Cabinet — The Panama Canal Treaty — Grant's nepotism — Simeon ..."
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