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Webster 1913 Edition

(stā′tĭz’m)

Noun.

[From

The art of governing a state; statecraft; policy.

[Obs.]

The enemies of God . . . call our religion

statism

South.

statism ‎(countable and uncountable, plural statisms)

The belief that the centralization of power in a state (sovereign polity) is the ideal or best way to organize humanity.

belief in the importance of the power of the state over an individual