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mandarinisms

mandarinisms is the plural of mandarinism.

Meaning of mandarinism

Noun

mandarinism (countable and uncountable, plural mandarinisms)

  1. A government of mandarins; character or spirit of the mandarins.
    • It seems to me that it is these very governments of centralized mandarinism that play at providence, in which they closely resemble the communists, as indeed all absolutism contains a strong element of communism.1853, Francis Lieber, On Civil Liberty and Self-government

Questions about mandarinisms

What is mandarinisms the plural of?
Mandarinisms is the plural of mandarinism.

Words near mandarinisms in the dictionary

  1. mandarinesses
  2. mandarinfish
  3. mandarinic
  4. mandarining
  5. mandarinism
  6. mandarinisms
  7. mandarinization
  8. mandarinize
  9. mandarinized
  10. mandarinizes
  11. mandarinizing

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