religionism

American  

[ri-lij-uh-niz-uhm] / rɪˈlɪdʒ əˌnɪz əm /

noun

1. excessive or exaggerated religious zeal.

2. affected or pretended religious zeal.

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religionism British  

/ rɪˈlɪdʒəˌnɪzəm /

noun

1. extreme religious fervour

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Other Word Forms

• antireligionist noun
• religionist noun
• religionistic adjective

Etymology

Origin of religionism

First recorded in 1785–95; religion + -ism

Example Sentences

It seeks not, therefore, the applause of men; and it shrinks from that spurious religionism whose prominent characters are talk, and pretension, and external observance, often accompanied by uncharitable censure.

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One of the most marked features of these lectures is the deep feeling which the preacher had of the emptiness and hollowness of the conventional religionism of the day.

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I do not suppose that much of our modern religionism is in great danger from too fervid emotion.

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His was an eclectic philosophy and religionism, of which all the elements were discoverable in old Hebrew books: scraps of Alexandrian philosophy inextricably blent with Aristotelian, Platonic, mystic.

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His doctrine of the Church had the disadvantage of an apparently intermediate and ambiguous position, refusing the broad, intelligible watchwords and reasonings of popular religionism.

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