democratismn.
/dᵻˈmɒkrətɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /dᵻˈmɑkrəˌtɪzəm/ Support for or advocacy of democracy as a political system or ideology.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > democratism
popularity1574
democratism1797
democracy1856
1797 E. Burke Three Mem. French Affairs 135 Between the Rabble of Systems, Fayetteism, Condorcetism, Monarchism, or Democratism or Federalism, on the one side, and the fundamental Laws of France on the other.
1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 655 The red cap of democratism.
1884 Times 30 Sept. 2/2 The most marked trait in our national literature, that which gives it a character all its own, is its deep-seated democratism, its generous and unselfish sympathy with the poor and lowly.
1926 B. Karlgren Philol. & Anc. China vii. 140 Democratism, the great panacea of the present age.
1966 V. Nabokov Speak, Memory (U.S. rev. ed.) x. 199 Speaking of right, he admitted he was a staunch ‘monarchist’..and went on to deplore my alleged..‘democratism’.
2006 D. N. Smith in J. M. Lehmann & H. F. Dahms Globalization between Cold War & Neo-Imperialism 94 Rather than implying democratism, Machiavelli's ‘execution’ suggests an emergent absolutism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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