Draconianism

draconianism English Etymology From en Draconian ism. Noun - + en draconianism. en 1819 w:William Gifford letter to John Murray quoted in w:Samuel Smiles A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray,with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768–1843; Samuel Smiles, LL.D., Author of ‘Lives of the Engineers,’ ‘Self-Help,’ Etc. In Two Volumes I London John Murray,Albemarle Street.; New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons,745, Broadway. 1891 404 https://archive.org/details/publisherhisfrie02smiluoft/page/404/mode/1up 1110833888 What a store of shame and sorrow is he laying up for himself! I never much admired the vaunt of Draconianism, ‘And all this I dare do, because I dare,’ yet what but this is Lord Byron’s plea! en 1939 October Germany I: ‘We Are Living in a Fortress’ Fortune XX 4 New York, N.Y. w:Time Inc. 126 https://archive.org/details/fortune20octluce/page/n157/mode/1up 2 0015-8259 1569892 This latter development is one of the most interesting of all Nazi Draconianisms. Under the Hereditary Farms Law of 1933, all farms up to 312 acres that are capable of supporting a family can never be mortgaged or sold and must be passed on undivided by the owner after his death to the eldest (in some cases the youngest) male heir. en 2008 July Graeme Anderson All at Sea and a Dose of the Blues In Keane We Trust: The Story of a Footballing City’s Faith in One Man: A Record of Sunderland’s 2007-08 Season Ireland Sports-i 217 https://archive.org/details/inkeanewetrustst0000unse/page/217/mode/1up 978-0-9554634-8-8 Keane could hardly have laid it on the line more eloquently in his press conference that week, that this was discipline rather than Draconianism. There wasn’t a trace of self-doubt from the manager over the action he’d taken. en 17 April 2012 Edward N. Haas On Secret Sins What Happens in Death + a Few Related Topics Bloomington, Ind. w:AuthorHouse footnote 1 129 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781468587401/page/129/mode/1up 978-1-4685-8740-1 But, having seen what monumentally disastrous consequences the Draconianism of their papal predecessors caused, no pope since then could possibly be excusably ignorant of how evil such Draconianism is as a result of the consequences it is all too likely to precipitate regardless of whether or not it is a punishment not exceeding the crime. en 2016 Ed Spencer Joined-up thought The People’s Republic of Absurdia or Blighty: The State We’re In London; Suffield, Norfolk Sigmund Fraud Books 216 https://archive.org/details/peoplesrepublico0000spen/page/216/mode/1up 978-1-911403-00-5 The endpoint of Draconianism may not necessarily have been the destination when Hair set sail but my, he got us there in the end, didn’t he? And though I warned of it, I never really thought that what I wrote would become vital in the vain hope of upholding civil liberty.