triumphalism

== English == === Etymology === From triumphal +‎ -ism. === Noun === triumphalism (plural triumphalisms) The attitude or belief that a particular doctrine, culture, or social system, particularly a religious or political one, is superior and that it will or should triumph over all others. 1994, Michael Howard, "The World According to Henry: From Metternich to Me," Foreign Affairs, May/June 1994: But not only did Soviet triumphalism eventually provoke the Reaganite reaction in the United States, but, Kissinger suggests, it produced the overextension of Soviet resources that led directly to economic and ultimately political collapse. 2008, David Souter, concurring opinion, Boumediene v. Bush, 553 U.S. ___, ___ (2008) The several answers to the charge of triumphalism might start with a basic fact of Anglo-American constitutional history: that the power, first of the Crown and now of the Executive Branch of the United States, is necessarily limited by habeas corpus jurisdiction to enquire into the legality of executive detention. And one could explain that in this Court’s exercise of responsibility to preserve habeas corpus something much more significant is involved than pulling and hauling between the judicial and political branches. ==== Related terms ==== triumphalist ==== Translations ====