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Cæsarism

Cæsarism

See also: Caesarism

English

Noun

Cæsarism (uncountable)

  1. Archaic spelling of Caesarism.
    • 1875, John Henry Newman, A Letter Addressed to His Grace the Duke of Norfolk: On Occasion of Mr. Gladstone’s Recent Expostulation, page 26 (The Catholic Publication Society)
      The Tracts for the Times were founded on a deadly antagonism to what in these last centuries has been called Erastianism or Cæsarism.
    • 1910, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World, page 134 (Dodd, Mead and Company)
      This popular philosophy is utterly despotic and anti-democratic; this fashion is the flower of that Cæsarism against which I am concerned to protest.