panderism
(ˈpændərɪz(ə)m)
Also pandar-.
[f. pander n. + -ism.]
The practice or trade of a pander; systematic pandering.
| 1601 Downfall Earl Huntington ii. ii. in Hazl. Dodsley VIII. 136 Suffering their lines To flatter these times With pandarism base. 1604 T. M. Black Bk. in Middleton's Wks. (Bullen) VIII. 24 He should excel even Pandarus himself, and go nine mile beyond him in pandarism. 1726 Swift Gulliver iii. viii, Perjury, oppression, subornation, fraud, pandarism. 1809 Malkin Gil Blas ix. vii. (Rtldg.) ¶4 Lemos managed that intrigue by the panderism of Signor de Santillane. 1818 Blackw. Mag. III. 453 His paid panderism to the vilest passions of that mob. |