[f. ARISTOCRAT + -ISM.] The principles or practices of aristocrats; haughty exclusiveness.
1792. S. Romilly, To Dumont, 10 Sept., in Mem., II. 3–4 (R.). His whole family, you know, are accused of being aristocrats, though their only aristocratism consists in their wishing to defend a constitution which all France has sworn to maintain.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. I. ii. 12. Aristocratism rolls in its carriage.
1878. P. Bayne, Purit. Rev., vi. 217. The spirit of religious caste, of spiritual aristocratism, had reappeared.
