Christianism
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Christianism
1570–80; < Late Latin Chrīstiānismus < Greek Chrīstiānismós Christianity, equivalent to chrīstiān ( ós ) Christian + -ismos -ism
Example Sentences
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In the very first scene—in the conversation between Treadway and Raphael—we feel at once the charm of that hearty "Christianism" which is never absent from Heywood's work.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
Orthodox Christianism has on its corresponding banner: Love to God.
From Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View by William Montgomery Brown
In ancient Osirianism, as in modern Christianism, we find the worship of a divine mother and child.
From The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Annie Wood Besant
The inspiration of Christianism I had taken to be personal truth which could be trusted.
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by George Jacob Holyoake
Everlasting Justice, yet with Penitence, 330with everlasting Pity,—all Christianism, as Dante and the Middle Ages had it, is emblemed here.
From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
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