owlism

Their Owlisms, Vulturisms, to an incredible extent, will disappear by and by, their Heroisms only remaining, and the helmet be reduced to something like the size of the head, we hope!

1895, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, and: Heroes and Hero-worship, page 114

It is rather hard to be told at this time of day that ballot-boxes and extension of the suffrage are included in Mr. Carlyle's catalogue of Shams, and that Messrs. Thompson, Fox, and Co. must even submit to the charge of talking unveractities and owlism.

2013, Jules Paul Siegel, Thomas Carlyle: The Critical Heritage, page 325

If the happiness of men depended as much upon the efficiency of agencies for the "mental discipline" and "culture" of women as it does upon their housewifely ability, the owlism would have been punched out of a score of very respectable studies long ago.

1870, Kansas State Agricultural College, Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, Catalogue, page 15

Verily, Paul, thy prime minister deserved the patent for owlism, but thou were alone, gigantic, a Cleopatran owl-obelisk, needing no support, no philosophy, no schooling at primary institutes, or primeval colleges, -hooting was thy self.

1967, Frederick T. McGill, Jr, Channing of Concord, page 23

The book describes a Northern people who believe the Great Owl to be their totemic ancestor, and explores the customs and rituals of these nocturnal owl-people, and the very nature of "owlism,” an archaic and occult source of twentieth-century ideocratic systems.

2021, Mikhail Epstein, Ideas Against Ideocracy