automatonism

"Perhaps we should call it automatonism since that is what the federal government would likely be reduced to, a mindless follower of the dictates of one or all the provincial premiers."

Mario Dumont: a constitutional fantasyland Ed Hollett 2007

Perhaps we should call it automatonism since that is what the federal government would likely be reduced to, a mindless follower of the dictates of one or all the provincial premiers.

Mario Dumont: a constitutional fantasyland Ed Hollett 2007

In one corner towered the huge gray-black McDonald machine in mighty strength, its multiple revolving arms furnished with gigantic iron fists which manipulate the unyielding granite with Herculean automatonism -- an invention of the film-like brain of man to conquer in a few minutes the work of nature's æons!

Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller

He perceived that these men were about to humanize themselves by casting aside temporarily their inexorable and aggressive automatonism.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) from the Spanish of Vincente Blasco Ibanez; authorized translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan. 1918