rubricismn.
/ˈruːbrᵻsɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈrubrəˌsɪzəm/ The strict or overzealous observance of liturgical rubrics.
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society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > rule, rubric > [noun] > conformity to > slavish
formalizinga1656
externalness1667
rituality1679
externality1833
ritualism1838
rubricism1840
ecclesiolatry1847
ceremonialism1854
externalism1856
formalism1856
exterioritya1875
liturgism1926
spikery1965
1840 J. H. Newman Let. 10 Mar. in Corr. with John Keble & Others (1917) ii. 62 Right views and practices are spreading strangely; nor do I think with you that they tend to nothing more than rubricism.
1862 Macmillan's Mag. 5 203 Its congregational worship affected no revolutionary Rubricism.
1904 Amer. Pulpit Apr. 39/3 Pedantry and rubricism were augured, as now they are, when Christ assailed their..stuffy theories as so much superfluous baggage.
1978 C. Howell in C. Jones et al. Study of Liturgy ii. iii. x. 241 Trent ushered in four centuries of rigidity and fixation; it was an era of rubricism.
2003 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. Sentinel (Nexis) 26 July b5 There are some people who see this as a retrenchment, a going backwards into more of a rubricism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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