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Definition of Nepotisms
1. nepotism [n] - See also: nepotism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nepotisms
Literary usage of Nepotisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Causes and Course of Organic Evolution: A Study of Bioenergics by John Muirhead Macfarlane (1918)
"... and nepotisms, and enable them to place in power men pledged to peace, progress,
and true economy. So that noblest benediction of Christ to humanity, ..."
2. The Book of the Sonnet by Leigh Hunt, S Adams Lee (1867)
"At such gnats was the Papal throat made to strain, while it swallowed camels, by
the dozen, of nepotisms and bad faith. The great, and what was at first ..."
3. The Gate Beautiful: Being Principles and Methods in Vital Art Education by John Ward Stimson (1903)
"Then, too often, our politics (by shufflings, wire-pullings, nepotisms and tricks)
disastrously install sly sycophants and incompetents, in posts of power ..."
4. A Sketch of the Life and Writings of Robert Knox, the Anatomist by Henry Lonsdale (1870)
"Whig commissions, Tory shams, scientific coteries and nepotisms, Town Council "
worthies," professorial intrigues, ..."
5. The Church and the Churches: Or, The Papacy and the Temporal Power : an by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger, William Bernard MacCabe (1862)
"... the great" and " small" nepotisms. In the former, Popes wished to found large
principalities for their families; in the latter, which began 1 " Relaz. ..."
6. Walks in Rome by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1900)
"... the head within, the feet without, red with the flames of hell. ' Le pontificat
de Nicolas III. est 1'archetype elu nepotisms, devenu depuis ..."
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