philosophism

American  

[fi-los-uh-fiz-uhm] / fɪˈlɒs əˌfɪz əm /

noun

1. spurious or deceitful philosophy.

2. a false or contrived argument, especially one designed to deceive.

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Other Word Forms

• antiphilosophism
  noun

Etymology

Origin of philosophism

First recorded in 1785–95; philosoph(y) + -ism

Example Sentences

In the forefront appears the fixed and favorite idea of the old-fashioned philosophism.

From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by Durand, John

Many Spaniards, some of illustrious birth and others of great learning, were the objects of secret informations, as suspected of impiety and philosophism.

From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Llorente, Juan Antonio

Piety is a womanly virtue which women alone can really instil; and the Marquise, a child of the eighteenth century, had adopted her father's creed of philosophism, and practised no religious observances.

From A Woman of Thirty by Balzac, Honoré de

It was Dr. Lind, according to Hogg, who gave Shelley his first lessons in French philosophism.

From The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by MacDonald, Daniel J.

Burke attempted to brand with a new name that set of pert, petulant, sophistical sciolists, whose philosophy the French, since their revolutionary period, have distinguished as philosophism, and the philosophers themselves as philosophistes.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac