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Caesarism  n.  A system of government in which unrestricted power is exercised by a single person, to whom, as Caesar or emperor, it has been committed by the popular will; imperialism; also, advocacy or support of such a system of government. Note: This word came into prominence in the time of Napoleon III., as an expression of the claims and political views of that emperor, and of the politicians of his court.





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... attitude, he declared suddenly that the highest expression of democracy was Caesarism: the imperial rule based upon the direct popular vote. Caesarism was conservative. It was strong. It recognized the legitimate needs of democracy which requires orders, titles, and distinctions. They would be showered upon deserving men. Caesarism was peace. ...
— Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard • Joseph Conrad
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... the Cologne Gazette, with all the honeyed adulation of a suddenly converted opponent, [2] has called this mixture "Social Monarchism." Therefore, it seems, the German Emperor is neither a constitutional sovereign nor a monarch by divine right. He has restored Caesarism of the Roman type, clinging at the same time to the principle of divine right—and the result ...
— The Schemes of the Kaiser • Juliette Adam
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... causes are to be found first in the general decay of Roman character—far-advanced before the coming of Caesarism, secondly in the peculiar nature of Roman literature, and thirdly in the ...
— Post-Augustan Poetry - From Seneca to Juvenal • H.E. Butler
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Words linked to "Caesarism" :   authoritarianism, dictatorship, tyranny, despotism, autarchy, autocracy, monocracy, police state, absolutism, one-man rule, Stalinism, shogunate


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