[f. VOLUNTEER sb. + -ISM.] The system of having volunteer military forces.
1844. P. Harwood, Hist. Irish Reb., 1798, 26. The effects of volunteerism on national morals and manners.
1914. Merthyr Express, 17 Jan., 10/2. Volunteerism to-day … was far different to what it was years ago, when a man would perhaps don his uniform once or twice a year.
