Pythagoreanism
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Pythagoreanism
First recorded in 1720–30; Pythagorean + -ism
Example Sentences
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While Croton was the chief seat of Pythagoreanism, luxury had fixed her throne in the neighbouring city of Sybaris.
From Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Keightley, Thomas
He proclaims war on all that cannot be demonstrated in reality; first and foremost, therefore, on Platonic love, then on all dogmatizing philosophy, especially its two extremes of Stoicism and Pythagoreanism.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno
Traces of Hermeticism and Pythagoreanism are clearly discernible, although the connecting link that bound them together has been lost to history.
From Reincarnation and the Law of Karma A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect by Atkinson, William Walker
The difference was that Pythagoreanism, the nexus, was only six hundrd years away, and the memory of it fairly fresh.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth
It’s what you call Pythagoreanism, isn’t it? if I haven’t forgotten my philosophy.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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