"infernalism" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1895, M. R. Campbell, “Road Laws”, in Roy Stone, editor, Historical and Technical Papers on Road Building in the United States, page 55",
          "text": "Paternalism has no terrors for me; indeed, I much prefer paternalism any time, in any form, and anywhere to infernalism in the way of bad roads.",
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