parliamentarism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.58 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The system of government in which the executive branch is legitimised by parliament.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "England was the historical model for the adoption of parliamentarism and party government in Germany."
- "German depictions of the Third Republic appeared to warn of the dangers of parliamentarism."
- "This is why some observers argue that German parliamentarism has degenerated."
- "By the same token, he developed a categorisation of different parliamentarisms, in order to be able to describe Swedish minority cabinets as being parliamentary governments proper."
- "2016, Pasi Ihalainen, European Parliamentary Experiences from a Conceptual Historical Perspective, Pasi Ihalainen, Cornelia Ilie, Kari Palonen (editors), Parliament and Parliamentarism: A Comparative History of a European Concept, 22, The history part comprises six national or regional (combining the Low Countries and Scandinavia) case studies of discursive processes that have defined parliamentarisms in some formative historical periods."
Etymology
From parliamentary + -ism.