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

See Examples For:

sacramentalism

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

We must not discredit the assurance which comes to the devout Buddhist who faithfully follows the Middle Way, or deny that Pagan sacramentalism was to its initiates a channel of grace.

From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Evelyn Underhill

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

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

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

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

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward

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