governmentalism

[ guhv-ern-men-tl-iz-uhm, -er-men- ]

noun

1. the trend toward expansion of the government's role, range of activities, or power.

Other Words From

• govern·mental·ist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of governmentalism¹

First recorded in 1840–50; governmental ( def ) + -ism

Example Sentences

Later on Socialism spoke in the name of Governmentalism; it said—"Since it is the special mission of the State to protect the weak against the strong, it is its duty to aid working men's associations; the State alone can enable working men to fight against capital and to oppose to capitalistic exploitation the free workshop of workers pocketing the entire value of the produce of their labour."

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In vain the long-cherished idea that this country was to pass down the cycle of time known as the land of freedom; that it was to be forever the asylum for religious liberty and the cradle of progress, unless the sober thought of our people be at once aroused to stem the rising tide of Governmentalism and the steady encroachment of religious organizations and despotic foreign thought.

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While, then, Mr. Bellamy denies that there is any danger of “governmentalism” or “paternalism” under nationalistic control, he himself admits and defends the principle.

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Mr. Flower thinks that nationalism would mean governmentalism and paternalism—in the historic sense of those terms—raised to the highest degree; and that these are both bad things.

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Governmentalism and paternalism have always been evils, Mr. Flower asserts.

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