different between delaying vs filibusterism

English

delaying

delaying (plural delayings)

A delay.
- 1826, Roger North, The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford; the Hon. Sir Dudley North; and the Hon. and Rev. Dr. John North
  […] a hearing, with a file of orders in the solicitor's bundle, as big as the common-prayer-book, for commissions, injunctions, publications, speedings, delayings, and other interlocutories; all dear ware to the client in every respect.
- 1909, Reginald Farrer, In a Yorkshire Garden
  However, there was no profit in cowardly delayings; booted and breeched, we sallied forth into a cold, ungenial morning such as you get in Switzerland […]

filibuster +? -ism

filibusterism (uncountable)

(dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
(US) The practice of forcefully and unauthorisedly acquiring control of foreign land.
- 1858 April, Mr. Buchanan's Administration, in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Number 6,
  All this was simply weakness; but in turning from the conduct of the Finances by the administration, to consider its management of Filibusterism, we pass from the consideration of acts of mere debility to the consideration of acts which have a color of duplicity in them. On the Filibusters, as on the Finances, the First Annual Message of the President was outspoken and forcible. It characterized the past and proposed doings of William Walker and his crew, as the common sense and common conscience of the world had already characterised them, as nothing short of piracy and murder.
- 1859, Orestes Augustus Brownson (editor), Politics at Home and Abroad, in Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 4, page 214,
  Conservatism has come to mean, with us, filibusterism, the acquisition of our neighbor's land, the extension of negro slavery, the reopening of the slave trade, and placing under the ban of society every publicist who raises his voice against such conservatism.
The practice of delaying legislation by filibuster or other obstructive tactics.

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