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- noun The supposed principles of Machiavelli, or practice in conformity to them; political artifice, intended to favor arbitrary power.
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- noun
Machiavellianism
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Examples
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Then, with an intuitive scoundrelism, or Machiavelism, surprising in one of my age, I went and stood in the door, and looked about me in the rooms, though I saw nothing; for both mind and eyes hovered about that fateful green cloth.
The Magic Skin 2007
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Machiavelism, — all these things impressed Lucien unawares.
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We begin to be cured of Machiavelism, and recover from it every day.
Baron de Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat Bok, Hilary 2003
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Talleyrand-Metternich or Thiers; and modern statesmanship and modern diplomacy show pale beside the Machiavelism of the _coulisses_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various
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Machiavelism, but to a "laudable desire to connect the actions of one's country with something more stable than interest."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various
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The battle of Gemappe was gained when the Brissotin faction had enthroned itself on the ruins of a constitution, which the armies were said to adore with enthusiasm: by what sudden inspiration were their affections transferred to another form of government? or will any one pretend that they really understood the democratic Machiavelism which they were to propagate in Brabant?
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The battle of Gemappe was gained when the Brissotin faction had enthroned itself on the ruins of a constitution, which the armies were said to adore with enthusiasm: by what sudden inspiration were their affections transferred to another form of government? or will any one pretend that they really understood the democratic Machiavelism which they were to propagate in Brabant?
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In the sections, "War-Worship," "Ruthlessness" and "Machiavelism," are grouped evidences of the methods of force and fraud by which it was hoped that these ambitions were to be realized.
Gems (?) of German Thought William Archer 1890
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Has the relentless Necessity of Comte erected its huge mill on this continent, to grimly grind out the annual quantity of patriotism, tyranny, noble self-abnegation, or Machiavelism, in the prescribed, invariable ratio of "Sociology?"
Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice Augusta Jane 1864
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Eminence with him; and his conversation was a kind of Borgia Brocade shot with Machiavelism.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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