Dissentism

See also: dissentism

English

Noun

Dissentism (uncountable)

1. (historical, Protestantism) The beliefs or practices of the English Dissenters.
   • 1851, Joseph Irons, Zion has nothing to fear from Popery, page 4:

     The natural man will be carried away, and will flit about with the wind of every false doctrine. Protestantism may go over to Puseyism; Dissentism may go over to Congregationalism; and all may merge into Catholicism; but what of all that?

   • 1859, William Chadwick, The Life and Times of Daniel Defoe, John Russell Smith, →ISBN, page 44:

     Is it a second Church-of-England establishment, created out of the taxes, in order to strengthen the patronage of the executive power, according to its imaginary requirements, from the healthy growth of Protestant dissentism?

   • 2004, Denys Leighton, The Greenian Moment, Imprint Academic, →ISBN:

     The present study examines an aspect of Green's professional and political life that has been noted but never adequately explained by previous studies — namely, his philo-Dissentism.

References

• “Dissentism”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.