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multitudinism|mʌltɪˈtjuːdɪnɪz(ə)m|
[f. L. multitūdin-, multitūdo multitude + -ism, after Fr.]
The principle according to which the interests of multitudes are placed before those of individuals, esp. in religion.
1860H. B. Wilson in Ess. & Rev. 146 The Comte Léon de Gasparin..laid it down..that the individualist principle supplies the true basis of the Church, and that by inaugurating the union between Church and State Constantine introduced the false..principle of Multitudinism. 1866Contemp. Rev. I. 92 The vicious multitudinism of the great public schools. 1870Ibid. XIV. 390 Sentimental multitudinism, seeking to base itself on a loose humanitarianism.
Hence multiˈtudinist, multitudiˈnistic adjs., favouring such a doctrine or principle.
1860H. B. Wilson in Ess. & Rev. 159 To the multitudinist principle are due the great external victories which the Christian name has hitherto won. 1862W. J. Irons in Replies to Ess. & Rev. 226 Whether primitive Christianity..was ‘multitudinistic’,..or whether it was ‘exclusive’ and sought access to the individual conscience of the few. |