sacramentalism
Americannoun
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a belief in or emphasis on the importance and efficacy of the sacraments for achieving salvation and conferring grace.
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emphasis on the importance of sacramental objects and ritual actions.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of sacramentalism
First recorded in 1860–65; sacramental + -ism
Example Sentences
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It defends ritual rightly or even sacramentalism rightly, because these are the things the Puritans attacked.
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward
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
To some extent this is already done: traditionalism and liberalism, sacramentalism, revivalism, quietism, have each their existing cults.
From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Evelyn Underhill
Modernist Catholicism has in my opinion antedated the irruption of crude sacramentalism into the Church, and has greatly overstated its importance in the religion of the first-century Christians.
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
This principle of the mediation of the spiritual by the material is the principle of sacramentalism.
From Religious Reality by A. E. J. (Alfred Edward John) Rawlinson
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