Definition of "regimentation" [regimentation]

• The act of regimenting. (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "The road of regimentation is the road to tyranny; the slope is slippery and seductive; the destination is disillusionment, disappointment and collapse."
• "In so far as possible, I tried to get away from the idea of regimentation by emphasis upon the necessity of developing initiative… in self-discipline."
• "The propensity to codify sports, to standardize the weight and size of their implements, and to reduce them to what Spencer calls regimentation, is a outcrop of uniformitarianism that works against that individuation which is one of the chief advantages of free play."