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Majorism|ˈmeɪdʒərɪz(ə)m|
[f. Major (see below) + -ism.]
The opinions held by Georg Major (1502–74), a German Protestant, who maintained that good works are necessary for salvation. So ˈMajorist, a follower of Major. Majoˈristic a., pertaining to Majorism or to the Majorists.
1845Encycl. Metrop. XIII. 475/1 These which are called the Majoristic and Synergistic controversies greatly agitated the Lutheran body. 1857Pusey Doctr. Real Presence (1869) 77 At the Conference at Worms a.d. 1557,..Flacius wrote to Christiern King of Denmark: ‘another maintains Majorism on the necessity of works to salvation’. 1874Blunt Dict. Sects etc., Majorists, the followers of Major in his controversy with Amsdorf. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 1827 The Weimar Confutatio (1559) in which synergism, majorism, adiaphorism, etc., are confuted. |