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.
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Origin of ecclesiasticism
First recorded in 1860–65; ecclesiastic + -ism
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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
But the moral order is no more a part of ecclesiasticism than earthquakes are.
From A Gamble with Life by Hocking, Silas K. (Silas Kitto)
The Jesuits, on the other hand, favoured the preservation of ancient feudalism and ecclesiasticism.
From Lafcadio Hearn by Kennard, Nina H.
The "New Learning," as Humanism was generally called, rapidly overwhelmed the old, barren scholasticism and ecclesiasticism.
From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann
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