Paternalism Definition

pə-tûrnə-lĭzəm
noun
A manner, often a patronizing or domineering one, of governing a country, managing employees, etc. that is suggestive of a father's relationship to his children.
Webster's New World
A policy or practice of treating or governing people in a fatherly manner, especially by providing for their needs without giving them rights or responsibilities.
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Noun

Singular:
paternalism
Plural:
paternalisms

Origin of Paternalism

Paternalism Sentence Examples

  • To be sure it is not always easy to distinguish between legal moralism and moral paternalism.

  • This rules out, among other things, conceptions of 'positive liberty ' that really involve paternalism.

  • There was the paternalism of a Frederick the Great in his encouragement of the silk industry, - "which all idle people ought to be made to work at," - in his encouragement of commerce through the newly acquired port of Marseilles and the opening up of market placed.

  • But the bans begun in the 1970s strike many Third Worlders as a particularly noxious example of Western paternalism.

  • Richard Dimbleby's benevolent paternalism was set alongside the differing personalities of Michelmore and, to a greater extent, Whicker.

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Words Starting With

PPAPAT

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MSMISM

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Words Starting With P and Ending With M

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11 Letter Words11 Letter Words Starting With P11 Letter Words Ending With M