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religionism|rɪˈlɪdʒənɪz(ə)m| [f. as prec. + -ism.] Marked or excessive inclination to religion; exaggerated or affected religious zeal.
1791–1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1866) 390/2 The coinage of a novel and significant expression, as this of Professor Dugald Stewart—political religionism. 1817Bp. Jebb Let. in C. Forster Life lxi. 573 This work has been carried on rather uncouthly: not religion, but religionism, having been the compressing power. 1833I. Taylor Fanat. v. 131 The germs of malignant religionism..are not wanting even in Basil. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 23 They call in the aid of an imaginative religionism to people their solitude with its glories. 1881Thorold Gospel of Christ Pref., Surely it is a morose religionism that fears knowledge, or distrusts science. |