† zabernismn.
/ˈzabənɪz(ə)m/ Obsolete.
The misuse of military power or authority; bullying, aggression (see quot. 1921).
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society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [noun] > military oppression
jackboot1768
zabernism1916
1916 Daily News 6 Sept. 4 There can rarely..have been a better example of the insolence of Zabernism than the ‘rounding up’ of crowds of unoffending people at the stations.
1918 19th Cent. Dec. 992 The acquisitive commercialists and financiers of Germany—the Zabernism of industry and l.s.d.—were up to the eyes in it [sc. the war].
1918 H. G. Wells In Fourth Year iii. 36 Both countries have been slaves to Kruppism and Zabernism.
1920 Glasgow Herald 7 Apr. 8 The advance of the Government troops into the Ruhr district, coupled with a marked exhibition of ‘Zabernism’, has stiffened the Spartacist resistance.
1921 E. Weekley Etymol. Dict. Mod. Eng. 1658/2 Zabernism (hist.), military jackbootery. From an incident at Saverne (Ger. Zabern) in Alsace (1912), when an excited Ger. subaltern cut down a lame cobbler who smiled at him.
Derivatives
ˈzabernize v. intransitive.
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society > authority > rule or government > oppression > oppress [verb (intransitive)] > use military oppression
zabernize1914
1914 Daily News & Leader 6 Apr. 1/7 A quaint illustration of an attempt to ‘zabernise’ in business life..is published..to-night.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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