fœderalism

A form of federalism — A system of national government in which power is divided between a central authority and a number of regions with delimited self-governing authority.

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Meanings

nounfœderalism (usually uncountable, plural fœderalisms)

plural fœderalisms

  1. obsoleteuncountableusuallyObsolete spelling of federalism.

    Some of the arguments used by its advocates appeared to him to be drawn from the principles of messieurs Robespierre and Barrère, who had contended for an empire one and indivisible, in preference to the union of its parts by fœderalism.

    1802, Charles Coote, chapter XII, in History of the Union of the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, pages 456–457

Origin

From fœderal + -ism.

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