sacramentalism

American  

[sak-ruh-men-tl-iz-uhm] / ˌsæk rəˈmɛn tlˌɪz əm /

noun

1. a belief in or emphasis on the importance and efficacy of the sacraments for achieving salvation and conferring grace.

2. emphasis on the importance of sacramental objects and ritual actions.

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sacramentalism British  

/ ˌsækrəˈmɛntəˌlɪzəm /

noun

1. belief in or special emphasis upon the efficacy of the sacraments for conferring grace

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Other Word Forms

• sacramentalist
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of sacramentalism

First recorded in 1860–65; sacramental + -ism

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Example Sentences

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sacramentalism

It defends ritual rightly or even sacramentalism rightly, because these are the things the Puritans attacked.

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward

This sacramentalism was not unchallenged, as we have already seen from Plato himself.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by R.W. Livingstone

Closely related to symbolism is sacramentalism; the man who sees nature as a book of symbols is likely to regard life as a sacrament.

From Architecture and Democracy by Claude Fayette Bragdon

It is much more free from sacramentalism, from vestiges of the ancient blood sacrifice, and its associated sacerdotalism, than Christianity.

From God the Invisible King by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Thus certain sectarian movements borrowed the sensationalism without the sacramentalism of Wesley.

From The Victorian Age in Literature by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

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