Voltairismn.
/vɒlˈtɛːrɪz(ə)m/ 1. Something characteristic of Voltaire.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > naturalism > [noun] > other doctrines and their adherents
Voltairism1776
animalism1798
primitivism1934
1776 W. J. Mickle in tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad Introd. p. cxxvi The error confessed, and still retained, is a true Voltairism.
2. The body of opinions or views expressed by Voltaire; the mocking and sceptical attitude characteristic of these.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > ideas, etc., characteristic of specific writer
Marlowism1593
Rabelaism1803
Johnsonianism1807
Johnsonism1807
Boswellism1825
Swiftianism1826
Walter Scottism1835
Carlylism1841
Voltairism1841
Macaulayism1846
Voltairianism1848
Zolaism1882
Rabelaisianism1886
Brontëism1887
Arnoldism1892
Kiplingism1898
Shavianism1905
Menckenism1922
Sitwellism1922
Pirandellism1925
Shavianismus1927
Proustery1928
Wodehousian1931
Waughism1934
Snovianism1966
Orwellianism1967
Pinterism1967
Orwellism1970
Pinterishness1970
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes i. 22 Truly, if Christianity be the highest instance of Hero-worship, then we may find here in Voltairism one of the lowest!
1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 1 We may think of Voltairism somewhat as we think of Catholicism or the Renaissance or Calvinism.
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