caesardomとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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Caesardom (uncountable)

1. Behaviour or atmosphere reminiscent of Julius Caesar, Roman general and statesman.
   • 1897, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis?, page 241:

     There will be maidens, too, appearing in society for the first time — as nymphs. Such is our Roman Caesardom!

   • 1898, Thomas Hancock, The Act of Uniformity: A Measure of Liberation, page 18:

     And in spite of the offices, bribes, flatteries, and "augmentations" of money, which Cromwell began to heap upon the beneficed Nonconformist incumbents after his deposition of the anticlericalist Barebones Parliament, and his erection of his own autocratic Caesardom, the Nonconformist clergymen were nevertheless suspected all over England of being more or less in sympathy with every plot for the Restoration of the king, though they hoped to effect it without a Restoration of the Catholic order and discipline of the Church.