dragonism

1. (archaic) watchful guardianshipExamples: "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, […]"; "Those who pique themselves on the elegant style of their billets, or those fair scriblerinas just emancipated from boarding school restraints, or the dragonism of their governess, just beginning to taste the refined enjoyments of sentimental, confidential, soul-breathing correspondence with some Angelina, Seraphina, or Laura Matilda; to indite beautiful little notes, with long tailed letters, upon vellum paper, with pink margins, sealed with sweet mottoes, and dainty devices, the whole deliciously perfumed with musk and attar of roses;"; "An American sectarian, who has always lived within the high walls and in the close atmosphere of our intense sect-life here, and has always been accustomed to the dragonism of sect-authority and sect-jealousy, —is utterly amazed when for the first time he looks over his native sect-walls and comes to see the freedom of thought and utterance within the old churches of Europe."archaicuncountable

2. (obsolete) Nonsense; unrealistic ideas.Examples: "It will be a last effort in behalf of a darling cause. Dragonism, infidelity, and false religion, will now be found, each making its last effort!"; "These doctrines, of which the inspire apostle is admitted as the "chief corner-stone", he characterizes as "Dragonism", a "congeries of falsities", and as "favoring the natural and sensual man"."; "The Vortex lasted from 1914 to 1916. I am quoting out of context, but nothing in what he says before or after modifies the dragonism of this statement: "That World War I dissipated the Vortex may yet prove to have been its most far-reaching effect.""obsoleteuncountable