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ˌregimenˈtation [f. regiment v. + -ation.] The action or process of regimenting or organizing. (Common in recent use, esp. with ref. to workers, industries, and societies.) Also with ref. to a whole society.
1882Spencer Princ. Sociol. v. xviii. §553 The process of militant organization is a process of regimentation, which..affects the whole community. 1890Booth Darkest Eng. 35 The regimentation of industrial workers who have not got regular work is not so very difficult. 1936Sun (Baltimore) 6 July 8/4 Let us..take the word ‘regimentation’... One dictionary has its meaning as ‘enforced socialism’. 1937Liberty 10 July 4/2 The same sort of regimentation that we find in Russia. 1943J. S. Huxley TVA i. 7 The possibility of obtaining the efficiency of a coordinated plan without totalitarian regimentation. 1958A. Huxley Let. 15 Feb. (1969) 845 Uniformity and tidiness..are so admirable in a work of art or a scientific theory but..in human life spell regimentation. |