Labadismn.
/ˈlabədɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈlæbəˌdɪz(ə)m/ Christian Church. Chiefly historical.
The doctrine or practice of the Labadists, a communistic Protestant sect holding pietist views founded by the French mystic Jean de Labadie (1610–74).Labadism died out before the 1730s.
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1737 tr. Ceremonies & Relig. Customs Var. Nations VI. 201 From these real or false Mysticks we now come to Labadism [Fr. Labadisme].
1883 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. II. 1604/1 The Reformed Labadism on the one side is connected with the Roman-Catholic Jansenism, and on the other with the Lutheran Spenerism.
1899 B. B. James Labadist Colony Maryland i. 9 Labadism was a late product of that spirit of reform which inaugurated the Protestant systems.
1922 E. N. Vallandigham Delaware & Eastern Shore xvii. 272 Perhaps the business of interesting Margaret Herrman in Labadism was no unpleasant task to the missionaries, neither of whom was an old man.
1994 Church Hist. 63 123 In the Lower Rhine Valley, Lutheran Orthodoxy reasserted its influence, particularly in urban areas, against Labadism and Buttlarian perfectionism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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