Statism

/ˈsteɪdɪzm/ · noun

Meaning

(obsolete, derogatory) Synonym of secularism: subservience of religious issues to political officials and expediency..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete, derogatory) Synonym of secularism: subservience of religious issues to political officials and expediency.
2. (obsolete) Synonym of statecraft or statesmanship.
3. (archaic) Synonym of government or governance.
4. The belief that most or all political power should be centralized in national governments.
5. The belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments.
6. The belief that the state is a legitimate social institution.

Example Sentences

Religion turned into Statisme, will soone prooue Atheisme.

My great Cousin hauing euermore From my greene yeares accepted my aduise In points of statisme...

[The Ten Commandments] have formed the basis of every system of statism adopted by the civilized communities of the earth.

Near-synonyms: big government, dirigisme

Republican Senator Charles L. McNary concluded his Vice-Presidential campaign tonight with the charge the New Deal is ‘taking deeper and deeper refuge in paternalism and statism’.

Bismarck... believes in State insurance in State activities, in place of individual action. But this is not Socialism. It is Statism.

As the economic derivative of libertarianism, laissez-faire capitalism is an economics of life, of rationality. […] And, like libertarianism, it is the only viable solution to the catastrophe of statism in the modern age.

[…]; social welfare policies reward parasitical living rather than risk-taking; a truly atavistic, sick attachment to the compulsion and non-meritocratic elitism of statism as a way of life; […] have all retarded and will continue to retard Europeans.

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