[f. FUNCTIONARY + -ISM.] The system of administration by means of functionaries; the characteristic bearing and manner of functionaries; officialism.

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1842.  Tait’s Mag., IX. 177. That new power which in this country is termed official patronage, and which Mr. Laing calls Functionarism.

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1851.  Ht. Martineau, Hist. Peace (1877), III. IV. xiii. 121. By a rapid and perpetual extension of functionarism—by planting officials all over the country to do the work of central departments seated in Paris—he [Louis Philippe] was casting a net over France, by means of which he could draw the representation into his own hands, and govern with ever-improving unity of plan—still and always for the nation’s own good.

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1880.  Friedrich von Schultz, Bureaucracy and its Operation in Germany and Austria-Hungar, in Contemporary Review, XXXVII. March, 432. Functionarism is one of the most characteristic phenomena in Germany.

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1885.  The Saturday Review, LX. 3 Oct., 463. What Mr. Newmarch called ‘functionarism’ in opposition to individualism—the State undertaking the functions of the individual, and meddling with the moral obligations of the community—is what all sound economists fear.

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