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churchism|ˈtʃɜːtʃɪz(ə)m|
[f. church n. + -ism.]
Belief in or adherence to the church or a church, or to an ecclesiastical system; ecclesiasticism; church-partisanship: often short for established-churchism and for English Churchism; so also High, Low, Broad Churchism.
1768in C. Chauncy Letter 61 The appellant's idea of religion, essentially different from churchism. 1841Arnold in Life & Corr. (1844) II. ix. 261 The old form of High Churchism, retaining much of Protestantism, and uniting it with other notions..which it cherished indistinctly, without pushing them to their consequences. 1868Contemp. Rev. VII. 618 To justify Dissent by aiming a blow at Churchism. 1871Hawthorne Sept. Felton (1879) 37 Some of the queer narrowness of English Churchism. |