释义 |
exˈternalism [f. prec. + -ism.] 1. Excessive regard for what is external, to the neglect of what is essential, esp. in religion; an instance of this.
1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. vi. ii. 158 The despotic externalism of the time. 1875Mrs. Charles in Sunday Mag. May 506 Pharisaic formalities and externalisms. 1879Farrar St. Paul II. 265 Christianity might be frittered away into a troublesome and censorious externalism. 2. The worship of the external world.
1874Blackie Self-cult. 11 This is the very madness of externalism. |