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junkerdom en · NOUN

Etymology

From junker + -dom.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The policies or attitudes of junkers (German aristocrats etc.).
    • But junkerdom in Germany alone among the nations of the earth rests on the divine right of kings that is the last resort of privilege. 1918, William Allen White, The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me:
    • Our only hope of a lasting peace is so to act now, and in the hour of victory, that junkerdom may seem to all German peoples a discreditable thing. 1915, The Cambridge Magazine, volume 5, page 342: