ecclesiasticism
Americannoun
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ecclesiastical principles, practices, or spirit.
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devotion, especially excessive devotion, to the principles or interests of the church.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of ecclesiasticism
First recorded in 1860–65; ecclesiastic + -ism
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The timing of Easter, a confusing system mixing astronomy and ecclesiasticism, was worked out by the early Christian Church at the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D. and has never been changed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Or was it the ecclesiasticism reaches, as everyone knows, from Maine to California, from Mississippi Baptists to Princeton theologues.
From Time Magazine Archive
The wheeled cherubim is well developed in the design of this famous cope, and is a pleasing decorative bit of archaic ecclesiasticism.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
Both of these men brought an atmosphere of grim ecclesiasticism into the house.
From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Theodore Dreiser
In about six months King Ferdinand undid the progressive work of six years, and Spain relapsed into absolutism and ecclesiasticism, with all their attendant evils.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane
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