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Sadduceeism|ˈsædjuːsiːɪz(ə)m|
Also 7 Sadduceisme, 9 Sadducæism.
[f. Sadducee + -ism. Cf. F. Saducéisme.]
1. The doctrine or tenets of the Sadducees.
1845Kitto Cycl. Bibl. Lit. s.v. Sadducee, Sadduceeism. 1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 142/1 The common view that Sadducæism was essentially a philosophico-religious school is due partly to Josephus. 1891Driver Introd. Lit. O.T. (1892) 446 An absence of national feeling and religious enthusiasm, in which the author [of Ecclesiastes] seems to be a forerunner of the later Sadduceeism.
2. The character and spirit of the Sadducees; materialistic unbelief; denial of immortality.
1661Baxter Mor. Prognost. i. xvii. 4 When they incline to Brutishness or Sadduceisme. 1849Thackeray Pendennis lxii[i], And on this and on other matters he thought he would compromise with his conscience, and that Sadduceeism was a very convenient and good-humoured profession of faith. 1872M. Collins Two Plunges for Pearl II. viii. 126 The subtle melancholy Sadduceeism of the ‘Saturday Review’ is not in the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount.
So ˈSadduceeist [-ist], in quot. adj., sceptical, indifferentist.
1888Black In Far Lochaber viii, Your friends..are not so tolerant and Sadduceeist as some of us up here. |