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Examples
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What will be the quality of the monarch and court and junkerdom that will face this awaking new Germany?
What is Coming? 1906
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And when junkerdom in Germany is crushed, then at least the world may begin the new era, may indeed begin to fight itself free.
The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me William Allen White 1906
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In France and Italy junkerdom is a motheaten relic.
The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me William Allen White 1906
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If the Allies win, it will weaken junkerdom everywhere.
The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me William Allen White 1906
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But junkerdom in Germany alone among the nations of the earth rests on the divine right of kings that is the last resort of privilege.
The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me William Allen White 1906
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The idea in my novel of the four Niebuhr girls and their initial rebellion was suggested to me by a family of Prussian junkerdom that I met at a watering place in Denmark.
The White Morning Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
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'I tell you flat, Amelia, I bows no knee to junkerdom.'
Echoes of the War 1898
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But in the patriarchal absolutism of a military monarchy, militarism exploits politics to further its own ends, and can create a situation which a democracy freed from junkerdom would not tolerate.
History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War Richard Joseph Beamish 1895
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