homonism

English

Noun

homonism (countable and uncountable, plural homonisms)

1. Misconstruction of hominism
   • 1879, Felix Adler, Atheism: a Lecture‎^[1], 2 edition, Co-operative Printers' Association, page 32:

     But that type of humanism (which Windelband called homonism) is not acceptable to all who bear the name, for example, Professor Schiller of Oxford.

   • 1961, Richard Olsen Cowan, Mormonism in National Periodicals‎^[2], Stanford University, page 203:

     Chart 1 shows the change in the periodicals' attitude toward Homonism from a very negative appraisal in the mid-nineteenth century to a moderately favorable viewpoint in the mid-twentieth century.

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