ecclesiasticism

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English

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Etymology

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From ecclesiastic +‎ -ism.

Noun

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ecclesiasticism (countable and uncountable, plural ecclesiasticisms)

  1. Strong attachment to ecclesiastical customs and practices.
    • 1903, Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, Studies in Napoleonic Statemanship Germany, page 278:
      The methods of punishment were drastic and Orbilian; the curriculum and the textbooks two centuries behind the age; the informing spirit ecclesiasticism cut and dried.
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