kaiserism

[ kahy-zuh-riz-uhm ]

noun

1. autocratic rule, like that of a German kaiser.

Word History and Origins

Origin of kaiserism¹

First recorded in 1910–15; kaiser + -ism

Example Sentences

Kaiserism, Terrorism and Bolshevikism are equally despicable and unfit to contribute to the sound progress which liberty, practiced by sensible and wise men, can develop.

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It was clean-cut from beginning to end, like one of their countrymen's short stories, and the short story of Cantigny is going to expand into a full-length novel, which will write the doom of the Kaiser and Kaiserism.

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Kaiserism was concealed in the glow of piety.

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I have been informed that it showed the animus of the Kaiser against the Archbishop, who with Cardinal Gibbons, the Bishops Keane, Spalding, O'Gorman, and Archbishop Riordan seconded by the present Bishop of Richmond, Denis O'Connell, had defeated, after a frightful struggle, the attempt of Kaiserism to govern the Catholic Church in this country.

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Archbishop Ireland with his group of Americans saved us from the insults of the propaganda of Kaiserism.

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