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  • noun act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country

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Examples

  • But if one goes by the proportion of prisoners to other casualties, and the amount of quislingism, the totalitarian states come out of the comparison worse than the democracies.

    James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution 1946

  • Nevertheless there is a tinge of quislingism in his attitude, which comes out in the ending of Part I and slightly interferes with the allegory.

    Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels 1946

  • But if one goes by the proportion of prisoners to other casualties, and the amount of quislingism, the totalitarian states come out of the comparison worse than the democracies.

    Collected Essays 1900

  • Yet, after this lapse of time, all that is left of him is a comic song and a beautiful tree, which has rested the eyes of generation after generation and must surely have outweighed any bad effects which he produced by his political quislingism.

    Collected Essays 1900

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