# der Kadavergehorsam

der Kadavergehorsam is a German noun meaning “blind obedience”. Forms: des Kadavergehorsams.

## Forms

- Genitive: des Kadavergehorsams

## Meanings

1. _no plural_ blind obedience, fanatical or excessive loyalty
   - 1875 (indirect speech attributed to Burghard Freiherr von Schorlemer-Alst (1825-1895) in a summary of a parliamentary debate of 7-10 May 1875), Wilhelm Müller, Politische Geschichte der Gegenwart: IX Das Jahr 1875 (1876), p. 49. Wozu denn das ewige Gerede von dem Kadavergehorsam in einer Zeit, in welcher der Kadavergehorsam gegen den Fürsten Bismarck einen bisher ungeahnten Grad der Ausbildung erreicht habe. — (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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