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Definition of Paternalisms
1. paternalism [n] - See also: paternalism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paternalisms
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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