junkerdom

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

junker +‎ -dom

Noun[edit]

junkerdom (uncountable)

  1. The policies or attitudes of junkers (German aristocrats etc.).
    • 1915, The Cambridge Magazine, volume 5, page 342:
      Our only hope of a lasting peace is so to act now, and in the hour of victory, that junkerdom may seem to all German peoples a discreditable thing.
    • 1918, William Allen White, The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me:
      But junkerdom in Germany alone among the nations of the earth rests on the divine right of kings that is the last resort of privilege.