单词 | precisianism |
释义 | precisianismn. Now historical. Strictness, rigid adherence to rules; the practice or conduct of a precisian; an instance of this. In earlier use: spec. Puritanism. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > acting according to some standard, fashion, etc. > strict or rigorous conformity austerenessa1450 rigour1536 preciseness1545 precisianism1573 rigorism1704 precisionism1868 society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Puritanism > [noun] Catharism1573 precisianism1573 puritanism1573 Purantism1596 cloak1649 saintism1691 Perfectism1830 hot gospelling1876 wowserism1936 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 30 [If] ever I have maintainid ani od point of puritanism, or præcisionism mi self. 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor iv. iii. sig. Miiv 'Tis now esteem'd Precisianisme in wit..to Loue, or seeke good Names. View more context for this quotation 1646 G. Buck Hist. Life Richard III Ded. They will challenge the book at the very title;..the Captious and Incredulous, with their jealous præcisianismes. 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs §272 Constrain into a precisianisme of conformity. 1665 E. Waterhouse Gentlemans Monitor §3 114 Men make no conscience of duties, and things sacred, but can pass them over, and swallow them down, deriding the precisianism of those that make scruple of sacriledge and impiety that is gainful. 1860 S. Hopkins Puritans II. xi. 285 His preaching was characterized by the marvellous boldness with which he reproved the Precisianism of the Establishment, its corrupt ceremonies, and its lordly pretensions. 1884 Jaunt in Junk 127 To affect the precisianism of a perfect prig. 1938 Osiris 4 416 If later Presbyterianism differed from Calvinist Precisianism..it none the less led to a sanction of persistent, hard labor as a means of salvation. 1987 Jrnl. Brit. Stud. 26 372 Many High Church Anglicans in mid-eighteenth-century England replicated the Wesley brothers' journey from discipleship of William Law's High Church precisianism to membership in the Methodist fold. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1573 |
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