nonce-wd. [f. L. phrase (in) statū quō (see IN Latin prep. 16) + -ISM.] Partisanship of the existing condition of things. So also Statu-quo-ite, whence Statuquoitism.
1816. T. L. Peacock, Headlong Hall, i. These four persons were, Mr. Foster, the perfectibilian; Mr. Escot, the deteriorationist; Mr. Jenkison, the statu-quo-ite; and the Reverend Doctor Gaster.
1826. H. N. Coleridge, Six Months in W. Ind. (1832), 184. There is so much statuquoitism in the old colonies.
1848. A. Steinmetz, Hist. Jesuits, III. 388. Another peculiarity of the Chinese was statu-quo-ism, their imitative faculties having from time immemorial completely palsied the inventive.
