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minimism|ˈmɪnɪmɪz(ə)m|
[f. L. minim-us (see minim) + -ism.]
1. nonce-use. Absorption in minute details.
1820Coleridge in Blackw. Mag. VII. 630/2 Your advice-mongers..whose critical minimism..might remind one of those tiny night-flies, that, as they hurry across one's book, contrive..to cover a word at a time.
2. Theol. The disposition to minimize the implications of an accepted dogma; the minimizing view of what is involved in a dogma, esp. that of papal infallibility.
1874J. H. Newman Cert. Diffic. Anglic. (1876) 339 Such a tone of mind [sc. a generous loyalty towards ecclesiastical authority] has a claim..to be met and to be handled with a wise and gentle minimism. 1884W. Palmer Narr. Events Suppl. iv. 278 The doctrine of Minimism, adopted by Newman from Bishop Fessler..gives liberty to the theologian to examine whether the Papal decree on any given point is or is not infallible. |