dragonism

dragonism

English

Etymology

dragon +‎ -ism

Noun

dragonism (uncountable)

1. (archaic) watchful guardianship
   • 1826, Caroline Anne Southey, Solitary Hour

     Those who pique themselves on "l'eloquence du billet;" those fair Scribblerinas just emancipated from boarding-school restraint, or from the dragonism of their governesses, just beginning to pour out their pretty souls in the refined intercourse of sentimental, confidential, ineffable correspondence, […]