Definition of Paternalisms

1. Noun. (plural of paternalism) ¹

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Definition of Paternalisms

1. paternalism [n] - See also: paternalism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Paternalisms

paternal filicide
paternal grandchild
paternal grandfather
paternal grandfathers
paternal grandmother
paternal grandmothers
paternal quality
paternal uncle
paternal uncles
paternalisation
paternalise
paternalised
paternalises
paternalising
paternalism
paternalisms (current term)
paternalist
paternalistic
paternalistically
paternalists
paternalization
paternalize
paternalized
paternalizes
paternalizing
paternally
paternities
paternity
paternity leave
paternity leaves

Literary usage of Paternalisms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1891)
"If our nation, it is claimed, allows this specious excuse to commit it to the doctrine of State interference, we are drifted into the despotic paternalisms ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1896)
"The party in the State which will adopt this policy and desist, once and for all, from attempts to win popularity by promoting * paternalisms ' for this ..."

3. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly by William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1897)
"The priestly classes who ruled Mexico and Peru maintained the most elaborate forms of prohibitions and debasing paternalisms, ever the obverse sides of ..."

4. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly by Harry Clemons, William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1897)
"The priestly classes who ruled Mexico and Peru maintained the most elaborate forms of prohibitions and debasing paternalisms, ever the obverse sides of ..."

5. Educational Sociology by David Snedden (1922)
"... how these have generally given way to benevolent paternalisms; and how, at present, educators (a few, at least) are bent on discovering ways of making ..."

6. Educational Sociology by David Snedden (1922)
"... how these have generally given way to benevolent paternalisms; and how, at present, educators (a few, at least) are bent on discovering ways of making ..."

7. The Standard by American Ethical Union (1919)
"They know that they can give their men gymnasiums, rest-rooms, insurance policies and other forms of welfare work, but that these benevolent paternalisms ..."

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