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wardom en · NOUN

Etymology

From war + -dom.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The state or condition of war; warfare; conflict.
   • [...] between two periods within the era of industrialization: the "paleotechnic" under the sway of steam and mechanics, that coincides with the "imperial-financial age," the era of Kriegspiel or "wardom"; [...] 1996, Armand Mattelart, The Invention of Communication:
   • In other words, because both policies were global, it led to the establishment of a global state of "wardom." 1987, J. F. C. Fuller, A Military History of the Western World, Vol. III:
   • ([...] I am even of opinion that this is the only way to escape from the terrible and ever increasing miseries of wardom militarism). 2010, Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies, page 28:

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