Meanings
nounCæsarism (uncountable)
- obsoleteuncountableObsolete typography of Caesarism.
The Tracts for the Times were founded on a deadly antagonism to what in these last centuries has been called Erastianism or Cæsarism.
1875, John Henry Newman, A Letter Addressed to His Grace the Duke of Norfolk: On Occasion of Mr. Gladstone’s Recent Expostulation, The Catholic Publication Society, page 261 more example
This popular philosophy is utterly despotic and anti-democratic; this fashion is the flower of that Cæsarism against which I am concerned to protest.
1910, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 134
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