politicalism

Noun

politicalism (countable and uncountable, plural politicalisms)

1. (uncountable) Political zeal.
   • He has wasted his substance in riotous politicalism, and preferred to eat the husks of financial prodigality to return to the fatted calf of honest industry and the robe and ring of progressive nationalism.1898 October, Benjamin Taylor, “The Coming Struggle in the Pacific”, in Nineteenth Century and After, volume 44, page 664
   • This state of disorder in the bureaucratic governmental dictatorship reveals itself throughout the whole of Russian society, from top to bottom, in the form of general discontent that finds its outward expression in the general politicalism, a politicalism that is not temporary or superficial , but...1964, Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, Collected Works - Volume 5, page 296
2. (countable) Political ideology.
   • Hence you realize that, whether it is socialism or any other politicalism, there is absolutely no change on the part of the other fellow, and the best thing you can do is to devise, to create a politicalism of your own .1922 August 19, Marcus Garvey, “Climbing Upward”, in The Negro World
   • 'I have a very poor opinion of Communism,' he declared. 'I am no authority on any politicalisms but just on the surface of the word, I would say Communism means weak-ism. […]'2009, Peter Doggett, There's a Riot Going On, page 1981
3. (countable) A typical example of political speech.
   • Paulding's play seemed the sort of material we should read for the Dictionary , for in a popular play of its type one might expect to find many politicalisms of the day.1954, James N. Tidwell, “Introduction”, in The Lion of the West, page 8
   • I do not try to trace the expression of politicalisms as Merle Himmelstein, Donald Gibson, and Daniel Aaron have done.1991, Milton R. Stern, Contexts for Hawthorne