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Definition of Paternalists
1. paternalist [n] - See also: paternalist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paternalists
Literary usage of Paternalists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Number 2 of "A Novel Proposition," Showing how the Rate of Wages (in by David Lubin (1893)
"The paternalists vehemently declare that this proposition does not go far ...
The anti-paternalists have been equally vehement and demonstrative in their ..."
2. A Handbook of Socialism: A Statement of Socialism in Its Various Aspects by William Dwight Porter Bliss (1895)
"... the opposite of paternalists. The Socialists of Germany, for example, recently
cast one million five hundred thousand votes against the so-called ..."
3. The History of Co-operation in England: Its Literature and Its Advocates by George Jacob Holyoake (1879)
"... Conservatives rule by patronage. When Mr. Owen curried socialism round the
continental courts, deap"t» 'and paternalists chiefly were his auditors. ..."
4. Modern Socialism by Charles Henry Vail (1897)
"... etc., in the hands of private parties, and allow them to do these things for
us instead of doing them ourselves, they are paternalists. ..."
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