kaiserism

[ kahy-zuh-riz-uh m ]

/ ˈkaɪ zəˌrɪz əm /

autocratic rule, like that of a German kaiser.

Origin of kaiserism

First recorded in 1910–15; kaiser + -ism

Carrying the heavy burden of Kaiserism seems no more to them than their day's work.

Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 3 |Louis Raemaekers
The doom of kaiserism was written large on that Lincoln Highway in that army of resolute, slow-moving army trucks.

Under the Maples |John Burroughs
This is the beginning of the end of Kaiserism, if I'm any judge.

Air Service Boys in the Big Battle |Charles Amory Beach
It was a worse condition than kaiserism itself had ever set up.

The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons |William Z. Foster

This regime revives the worst methods of Kaiserism and holds its protecting hand over the bourgeois and capitalists of Germany.

The Red Conspiracy |Joseph J. Mereto