α. 1600s familisme, 1600s– familism.
β. 1600s familyism.
familismn.
/ˈfamᵻlɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈfæməˌlɪzəm/ 1. Theology. Frequently with capital initial. The doctrine and practice of the Family of Love. See family n. 5. Now historical.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > familism > [noun]
familism1609
1609 H. Ainsworth Def. Holy Script, Worship & Ministerie 23 How near these reasons & grounds do reach to Iudaism & Familism.
1639 J. Canne Stay against Straying 73 It is familisme for him to say..I will have in my selfe asecret meaning from the rest.
1648 Protest of Ministers in J. G. Miall Congregationalism in Yorks. (1868) i. 49 (modernized text) We are resolved..never to consent to the toleration of..Familyism..or any other heresies.
a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) V. 148 The Devil found it requisite..to set up his Standard in Familism, or Enthusiasm.
1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) 117 His principles were the very dregs of familism.
1824 L. M. Child Hobomok ix. 85 Some..entered into theological controversies, in which a penetrating eye might discover the embryo forms of Familism, Gortonism, and divers other long forgotten sects.
1893 Haverford College Stud. May 36 The resemblance between some of the doctrines of Quakerism and of Familism.
1915 G. Hodges Henry Codman Potter i. 2 The familism of which Robert Potter was found guilty was an assertion that love, not faith, is the most important part of the Christian religion.
1995 J. J. Woltjer & M. E. H. N. Mout in T. A. Brady et al. Handbk. European Hist. 1400–1600 II. xiii. 392 The sect [sc. the Family of Love] attracted artists and intellectuals in and outside the Netherlands who subscribed to Familism during certain periods of their lives.
2. With reference to the writings of Charles Fourier: the feeling existing between family members; familial or parental love. Fourier classified familism as one of the four cardinal passions, along with love, ambition, and friendship.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > family > [noun] > family feeling
familism1839
1839 Monthly Mag. July 71 Fourier distinguishes..four social passions—viz. Friendship, Ambition, Love, Familism.
1848 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 15 705 The propensity to group embraces love, friendship, ambition, and a fourth passion called familism.
1910 Y. Guyot Socialistic Fallacies i. viii. 58 The four ‘affective’ passions (love, friendship, ambition, and familism or paternity).
1986 J. Beecher Charles Fourier xi. 235 Groups in which familism prevails [are defined] by deference of the old to the young.
3. A mode of life or social system in which the family is highly valued. Frequently opposed to individualism.See also amoral familism n. at amoral adj. Compounds.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > [noun] > social structure or system > type of structure or system
system1806
white supremacy1824
communitarianism1840
familism1859
the Establishment1955
global village1959
megamachine1967
1859 Harper's Mag. Dec. 70/2 The household..when left to itself..tends to a narrow clannishness, or belittling familism.
1898 Appletons' Pop. Sci. Monthly Feb. 542 The pendulum has swung from excessive familism to a somewhat normal domestic life, and then outward to a riotous individualism.
1949 M. J. Hagood in C. C. Taylor et al. Rural Life U.S. ii. iii. 39 In most rural populations throughout the world there is a high degree of familism, of family-centered life.
1971 K. Gough in R. Reiter Toward Anthropol. of Women (1975) 65 The reduction in significance of the family that we see today is the outgrowth of a decline in the importance of ‘familism’ relative to other institutions.
2011 Jrnl. Compar. Family Stud. 42 790 Such ties often reinforce familism over individualism and encourage early marriage and childbearing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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