Noun
The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWe all know that the besetting danger of Churches is formalism; the besetting danger of State action, of corporate action, is officialism and mechanism; and we all know that it is a drawback to many modern ideals that they rest upon materialism and a soulless secularism. John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn