demagogism, -goguism
(ˈdɛməgɒgɪz(ə)m)
[f. demagogue + -ism.]
The practice and principles of a demagogue.
| 1824 Blackw. Mag. XVI. 480 In a government depending on popular support, the vices of demagogism (let us take a Trans-Atlantic privilege of coining a word) will be found. 1831 Fraser's Mag. III. 478 His dissolute and detestable demagoguism. 1870 Lowell Study Wind. (1886) 181 The demagogism which Aristophanes derided. |