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noun
Officialism  n.  The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. "Officialism may often drift into blunders."






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"Officialism" Quotes from Famous Books



... being blackguards, the earnest ladies are often something very like blacklegs. But the more immediate point is that the modern working woman bears a double burden, for she endures both the grinding officialism of the new office and the distracting scrupulosity of the old home. Few men understand what conscientiousness is. They understand duty, which generally means one duty; but conscientiousness is the duty of the ...
— What's Wrong With The World • G.K. Chesterton



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