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Machiavellism

Machiavellism noun: machiavellianism.

Noun

Machiavellism

  1. Machiavellianism
    • The theory and practice dealt with in this essay are all related to what I call Machiavellism, by which I mean the disregard of moral scruples in politics, that is, the political use, limited only by expediency, of every kind of deception and force.2014, Ben-Ami Scharfstein, The Nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll: Unexpected Essays on Philosophy, Art, Life, and Death, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 152

Origin of Machiavellism

From Machiavelli + -ism.

Questions about Machiavellism

What does Machiavellism mean?
Machiavellism means machiavellianism.
What part of speech is Machiavellism?
Machiavellism is a noun.

Words near Machiavellism in the dictionary

  1. Machiavellis
  2. machiavellise
  3. machiavellised
  4. machiavellises
  5. machiavellising
  6. Machiavellism
  7. Machiavellist
  8. Machiavellistic
  9. Machiavellists
  10. machiavellize
  11. machiavellized

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