paternalistn.adj.

1888 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 3 Nov. There was a time when the Federalist advocated..a church favored by the state and similar measures, at which the most pronounced paternalist would now stand aghast.

1910 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 23 Mar. 8/5 It is believed by the agitators to be the weakest point in the Democratic shield at which paternalists may strike.

1962 R. Williams Brit. in Sixties iv. 92 The control claimed as a matter of power by authoritarians, and as a matter of principle by paternalists, is often achieved as a matter of practice in the operation of the commercial system.

1986 E. Longford Pebbled Shore ii. 15 By the 1880s ‘his workers’—for he was a paternalist—had grown into a..significant work-force.

2000 Independent 24 Nov. i. 2/5 Most of those faithful to Thatcherite economics are social paternalists.

1894 Warren (Pennsylvania) Ledger 27 July 3/2 He..is always careful to avow himself a strict constructionist of the old school, and yet manages to support more of the so called paternalist schemes than any other Democrat.

1909 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 17 729 Evolution of politics..had not yet banished from the field many measures that rivaled protection for the favor of the patrons of paternalist theory.

1928 Britain's Industr. Future (Liberal Industr. Inq.) iii. xviii. 237 ‘Welfare work’ has an unpleasantly paternalist and patronising sound.

1999 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 71 970 Many workers remained attracted to paternalist, anarchist, or neutral groups in Liège.