Meaning of hierarchicalism | Babel Free

Definitions

The process or policy of organising as a hierarchy.

uncountable

Examples

“As we have⟳ explored the organizational development of the church, it has become⟳ evident that the organization that God wanted for His church was the antithesis of hierarchicalism.”

““Beneath that quick-smiling or watchful Catholicism lurks another far more elaborate hierarchicalism which in turn⟳ subdivides all supposed ‘Mexicans’ into myriads of local spiritualities whose half-secret survival through all the long torments of the Spanish conquest promises their own⟳ continuance in bright-colored globules of coherence irrelevant to, hence safe from, the scrutiny of American capitalists.””

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