Nazarenismn.
/ˈnazəriːˌnɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈnæzərəˌnɪz(ə)m/ Now rare.
1. Church History. The doctrines or principles of the early Christians, esp. the Nazarenes (see Nazarene n. 3a).
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1889 T. H. Huxley Ess. Some Controverted Questions (1892) 349 Did not the primitive Nazarenism, or Ebionism, develop into the..Elkasaitism of later ages?
1923 Expository Times Nov. 73/2 Here..the story of Jesus ends, and the story of Nazarenism begins.
2. Art. The characteristics or artistic principles of the Nazarene school of artists or their followers; archaism. Cf. Nazarene adj. 4. In quot. 1947 in extended use.
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1895 E. C. Dowson et al. tr. R. Muther Hist. Mod. Painting I. vi. 229 It was of no avail to him [sc. Philip Veit] that he mingled with his Nazarenism a certain air of the world.
1947 A. Einstein Music Romantic Era iv. 36 The Protestant church turned back to Bach..; the Catholic went back still further, to Palestrina and his time, in whose style it fostered a new musical Nazarenism, comparable to the Pre-Raphaelitism of the English school of painters.
1960 R. H. Boothroyd tr. F. Novotny Painting & Sculpture Europe 1780–1880 vi. 69 In the strange mixture of styles pervading his paintings of saints there appear[s]..a breaking down of the narrow confines of academic Nazarenism reminiscent even of Blake.
1974 MLN 89 490 The blind alley ending in the ‘Nazarenism’ of German Romantic painters in Rome early in the nineteenth century.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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