peculiarismn.

1835 J. H. Newman Let. 10 Apr. (1903) II. 87 Young men feel a disposition..to rise against the system they have been brought up in, and I trust, the true one being suggested, will keep them from taking up with Liberalism &c. &c. instead of Peculiarism.

1836 J. H. Newman in Brit. Mag. 10 283 That peculiarity, or peculiarism, in religion, (if I may give it a significant appellation).

1838 S. Wilberforce in A. R. Ashwell Life S. Wilberforce (1880) I. iv. 119 A good man, but a poor creature, evidently set up by Peculiarism.

1849 J. R. Milbanke in F. L. Müller Brit. & German Question (2002) 16 The ignorance of the social peculiarism of the separate states which characterizes the proceedings of the Frankfort legislators.

1912 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 32 438 This is one more instance of the literary peculiarism of the oriental sects; Jew, Samaritan, Manichaean, the Syriac Christian churches, each party developed its own peculiar literary vehicle.

1925 G. B. Shaw in Times 12 Nov. 10/2 I do not hold any brief for..Christian Science, or herbalism, or peculiarism.

1947 Jrnl. Near Eastern Stud. 6 213/2 The furious and bloodthirsty zeal which the original Jehonadab exhibited in the earlier narrative decayed in time to an innocuous but unintegrated peculiarism.

1991 Libertarian Feminism in soc.feminism (Usenet newsgroup) 8 Apr. A myth of individuality or peculiarism often serves to keep a subordinate population in line, since it helps keep them from assembling to pursue their interests in common.