Meanings
- uncountableThe process or policy of organising as a hierarchy.
As we have explored the organizational development of the church, it has become evident that the organization that God wanted for His church was the antithesis of hierarchicalism.
2000, Colin D. Standish, Organizational Structure and Apostasy, page 181 more example
“Beneath that quick-smiling or watchful Catholicism lurks another far more elaborate hierarchicalism which in turn subdivides all supposed ‘Mexicans’ into myriads of local spiritualities whose half-secret survival through all the long torments of the Spanish conquest promises their own continuance in bright-colored globules of coherence irrelevant to, hence safe from, the scrutiny of American capitalists.”
2009 August 2, Lawrence Downes, “Desert Odyssey”, in New York Times
Origin
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hierarchicalism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hierarchicalism
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