Bismarckianadj.

1878 H. J. Coleridge in Month 13 263 The principles of State persecution—principles which have been repudiated by the civilization of modern Europe, even though the new Bismarckian phase of that civilization seems to tend to their re-adoption.

1901 G. B. Shaw Three Plays for Puritans p. xx The strong-minded Bismarckian man of action.

1914 Chambers's Jrnl. 3 Jan. 78/1 Germany's policy is the Bismarckian policy of ‘blood and iron’.

1889 Voice (N.Y.) Feb. 7 The general expression of the public loss..may serve to check a too rampant Bismarckianism.

1954 A. J. P. Taylor Struggle for Mastery xx. 467 It was Bismarckianism run mad for Kiderlen to suppose that Caillaux would find it easier to compromise if he was first threatened.

1870 Fortn. Rev. Dec. 640 To substitute Bismarckism for Napoleonism would be a very small gain to civilisation.

1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Feb. 122/1 Commercial and territorial expansion—Bismarckism in Germany, Imperialism in England.