Junkerdom

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The policies or attitudes of junkers (German aristocrats etc.). uncountable

    "Our only hope of a lasting peace is so to act now, and in the hour of victory, that junkerdom may seem to all German peoples a discreditable thing."

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"Our only hope of a lasting peace is so to act now, and in the hour of victory, that junkerdom may seem to all German peoples a discreditable thing."

Etymology

From junker + -dom.

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