Platonismn.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Miii/1 Platonisme, Platonismus.

1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. E5 Those that are rightly acquainted with Platonisme, will accept of that small pains.

1691 W. Nicholls Answer Naked Gospel 90 A mixture of Platonism, Hobbism, and Sabellianism.

1713 R. Nelson Life Bp. Bull §69. 394 Till Platonism and Gnosticism crept into the Church.

1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity I. i. 11 That..was introduced from the principles of platonism afterwards.

1806 A. Knox Let. Nov. in J. Jebb & A. Knox Thirty Years' Corr. (1834) I. 283 Thinking, as I do, that platonism was prepared providentially, not only as preliminary to christian piety, but as a kind of fermenting principle, to act occasionally in reinvigorating it.

1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics I. iii. i. 71 Platonism in Philo does for Judaism what it was soon to do for Christianity.

1876 S. F. Alleyne & A. Goodwin tr. E. Zeller Plato & Older Acad. xvi. 617 The Old Academy had even then, in many of its members, departed very far from genuine Platonism.

1938 J. Burnaby Amor Dei i. 15 The world into which Christianity brought the Gospel of divine Agape, of God's self-giving love to men, already knew that thirst for the Divine which Platonism called Eros.

1993 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 18 Apr. 15/2 Mark Strand has made a career out of a homegrown Platonism that argues that if there is a heaven, it is one we make ourselves.

1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God x. xxx. 400 He ouerthrowes one great Platonisme.

1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xviii. xviii. 694 A philosopher came to him and expounded certaine Platonismes vnto him.

1814 T. Jefferson Let. 5 July in Writings (1984) 1342 Thousands of volumes have not yet explained the Platonisms engrafted on them.

1845 R. Choate Amer. Bar in Addr. (1878) 165 Hear the striking platonisms of Coleridge.

1886 Times 7 July 8/1 There is sometimes asperity in legislative and journalistic encounters, but they are platonisms compared to those which disturb the deliberations of other great constitutional countries.

1946 Mod. Philol. 43 219/1 In the manner of Platonisms, the dialectical shifts in doctrines complete a circle.

1993 Commonweal (Nexis) 7 May 14 In Platonisms, the eternal is so real that history lades to mere illustration.

1666 Duchess of Newcastle Descr. New World i. 111 These two souls became enamoured of each other; which the Duchess's soul perceiving, grew jealous at first, but then considering that no Adultery could be committed amongst Platonick Lovers, and that Platonism was Divine..cast forth of her mind that Idea of Jealousie.

1754 S. Fielding & J. Collier Cry I. i. v. 92 I know how dangerous this notion of platonism hath been to womankind, and most sincerely wish that every young woman would avoid its alluring snares.

1782 W. Alexander Hist. Women (ed. 3) I. vii. 233 The Troubadour..was not always satisfied with pure platonism, and frequently debauched the virgin or the wife whom he attended.

1850 J. G. Whittier Old Portraits & Mod. Sketches 190 It is more than probable that he might never have discovered the true nature of that interest, or conjectured that any thing whatever of earthly passion or sublunary emotion had mingled with his spiritual Platonism.

1893 E. Saltus Madam Sapphira 59 For that reason..platonic affection, or, more exactly, reciprocal platonism, is discoverable only among married people.

1904 Times 8 Nov. 7/1 Thither come Antonio and the imbecile cousin on their platonic excursion, to the great scandal of the doctor's wife and the rector's wife, to whom the ostentatious platonism of the proceeding is only an additional offence.

1996 Austin (Texas) American-Statesman (Nexis) 8 Mar. e1 The titular character..is a therapist on Manhattan's Upper West Side, living in trendy Platonism with her buddy Joe.