daddyismn.

1841 W. Whitehorne in N.-Y. Evangelist 17 Feb. 26/6 Any plan at all akin to it [sc. the ‘Leadership’ system in the Baptist Church in Jamaica], or bearing any of the same features, will be very likely to glide down into pure ‘Daddyism’.

1847 T. Pennock Affectionate Addr. to Jews of Jamaica 128 I have in my former book assailed false ministers, daddyism, popery, &c.

1855 Presbyterial Critic Feb. 95/1 It [sc. conservatism in the church] is not name and title worship—vulgarly called ‘Daddy-ism’ (a corruption, we presume for ‘D. D-ism’).

1871 Cleveland (Ohio) Morning Herald 22 June ‘Both his father and grandfather were very distinguished men in the East.’ ‘Were they?’ replied our merchant. ‘That is good, but is of no account with us here. There is less daddyism in Chicago than any other place in the United States.’

1880 Daily Evening Democrat (Shelbyville, Indiana) 10 Aug. An anxious world is thrilled with the knowledge that the nominated person is a self-made scion of a poor but respectable sire. That is carrying ‘daddyism’ to a profuse degree.

1899 Washington Post 7 Mar. 6/6 (headline) Daddyism in Great Britain... Lord Tennyson has been made governor of South Australia... He is appointed solely because he is the son of his father.

1910 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 1 Apr. 1/3 ‘If a father leaves his wealth to his children in order that his sons may be above the other fellows he does a thing that is below American merit,’ he said. ‘There is no room for “daddyism” here.’

1897 Trans. Amer. Soc. Civil Engineers 37 8 Before much success can be obtained in that direction [i.e. in bridge design], there needs to be change in cerebration; more freedom and less ‘daddyism’.

1964 N.Y. Times 27 Oct. 30/1 Once again he [sc. Barry Goldwater] struck at expanding Federal power, this time charging President Johnson with ‘political daddyism’—seeking votes by promising the Federal Government will take care of everything without cost.

1972 Florence (S. Carolina) Morning News 13 Aug. 4 a/5 The assumption that government should deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves really is a galling kind of political Daddyism.

2005 Tennessee Tribune 13 Jan. 4 Some pompous ideology based on ethnocentrism, supremacy, hegemony, daddyism—‘we know what's good for you’.

1892 Spectator 24 Dec. 927/2 It is the beginning of wisdom for a biographer to recognise that his gifted subject may have but a special gift..; and yet that the proper way to introduce him to the public..is to whisper, ‘This is the cleverest man of his time at so-and-so; but in all other respects, he is an Old Daddy!’ If this great truth had broken upon Carlyle's biographer, how much daddyism had we been spared!

1984 Washington Post 1 Dec. d3/1 ABC's ‘Mr. Mom’ last night reverted to the Stu Erwin school of doltish daddyism so popular in the TV '50s.

2002 Telegraph (Alton, Illinois) 24 Feb. b2/6 I heard my husband utter the granddaddy of all daddyisms—‘As long as you live under my roof, you obey my rules.’

2010 M. Price White Trash Princess iii. 11 Another distinct Daddyism was the way he loved to use old timey sayings, but he always said them wrong.