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ecclesiasticism
[ ih-klee-zee-as-tuh-siz-uhm ]
noun
- ecclesiastical principles, practices, or spirit.
- devotion, especially excessive devotion, to the principles or interests of the church.
ecclesiasticism
/ ɪˌ°ì±ô¾±Ë³úɪˈæ²õ³Ùɪˌ²õɪ³úÉ™³¾ /
noun
- exaggerated attachment to the practices or principles of the Christian Church
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of ecclesiasticism1
Example Sentences
The piece is about ecclesiasticism, and the big but contained joy that informs the act of creativity—along with power and elegance and modesty.
He thus extended the meaning of the word far beyond the narrow range of ecclesiasticism.
But the moral order is no more a part of ecclesiasticism than earthquakes are.
Those who formed the system of Christian ecclesiasticism never could afford to have a conscience.
Sacerdotal ecclesiasticism is Christianity that has lost the Aristotelian disinterestedness of devotion to intellectual and social ends higher and wider than its own institutional aggrandisement.
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