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
Example Sentences
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Or was it the ecclesiasticism reaches, as everyone knows, from Maine to California, from Mississippi Baptists to Princeton theologues.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
He had always made a firm stand against ecclesiasticism in any form.
From The Secret Glory by Arthur Machen
But the Express has stood out firm against feudalism, mediaevalism, and entrenched ecclesiasticism.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
President White hints that "the forces of ecclesiasticism united against the innovators of anatomy, and either from direct persecution or from indirect influences Vesalius became a wanderer."
From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by James J. Walsh
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