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    Synonyms and Definitions

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    caesarism


    1. In that attitude, he declared suddenly that the highest expression of democracy was Caesarism: the imperial rule based upon the direct popular vote


    2. Caesarism was conservative


    3. Caesarism was peace


    4. Who was that Corsican of six and twenty? What signified that splendid ignoramus, who, with everything against him, nothing in his favor, without provisions, without ammunition, without cannon, without shoes, almost without an army, with a mere handful of men against masses, hurled himself on Europe combined, and absurdly won victories in the impossible? Whence had issued that fulminating convict, who almost without taking breath, and with the same set of combatants in hand, pulverized, one after the other, the five armies of the emperor of Germany, upsetting Beaulieu on Alvinzi, Wurmser on Beaulieu, Melas on Wurmser, Mack on Melas? Who was this novice in war with the effrontery of a luminary? The academical military school excommunicated him, and as it lost its footing; hence, the implacable rancor of the old Caesarism against the new; of the regular sword against the flaming sword; and of the exchequer against genius


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    Synonyms for "caesarism"

    absolutism authoritarianism caesarism despotism dictatorship monocracy one-man rule shogunate stalinism totalitarianism tyranny

    "caesarism" definitions

    a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)