Spencerismn.
/ˈspɛnsərɪz(ə)m/ The philosophy of Herbert Spencer, or views in accordance with this.
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Spencerism1880
Spencerianism1881
1880 Nature 26 Feb. 406/2 The propagation of Spencerism and Monism.
1900 H. Macpherson Herbert Spencer 66 Spencerism stands on its own merits as the philosophy of the knowable.
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ˈSpencerite n.1 a Spencerian.
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Spencerian1878
1871 J. McCosh Christianity & Positivism vii. 182 There is a..set of youths in our day who will become Comtists, or Millites, or Spencerites, or even Huxleyites.
1882 Advance (Chicago) 30 Mar. 194 There are such sects as Calvinists and Agnostics, and one..of Spencerites.
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