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  • noun The character or policies of the Prussians.

Etymologies

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Prussian +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • Whereas Prussianism is the exploitation of the many by the few, for the few; Bolshevism is the exploitism of the few by the many, for the many.

    Democracy or Bolshevism 1919

  • If Prussianism is crushed, Democracy may become as splendid as its principles, as glorious as its professions.

    Woodrow Wilson and the Doctrine of Sovereignty 1918

  • If Prussianism is victorious, democracy will for a long time survive only in political huts and caves.

    Woodrow Wilson and the Doctrine of Sovereignty 1918

  • But the old fights still had to be waged on the home front: against the money power and against what the _New Witness_ called Prussianism at home.

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932

  • An account of both the historical kingdom of Brandenburg-Prussia and the idea of "Prussianism".

    Immigration 2010

  • An account of both the historical kingdom of Brandenburg-Prussia and the idea of "Prussianism".

    An Old Oligarch Passes On 2009

  • Chesterton was an early opponent of the Eugenic movement and I am confident that his hatred of what he called "Prussianism" would have led him to see through Hitler.

    Hilaire Belloc was a Liberal MP 2009

  • An account of both the historical kingdom of Brandenburg-Prussia and the idea of "Prussianism".

    Hugo Bound 2009

  • An account of both the historical kingdom of Brandenburg-Prussia and the idea of "Prussianism".

    Clunk, Clunk, Clunk 2009

  • An account of both the historical kingdom of Brandenburg-Prussia and the idea of "Prussianism".

    Air Superiority Lost? 2010

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