Ecclesiasticism

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Strong attachment to ecclesiastical customs and practices. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    excessive adherence to ecclesiastical forms and activities wordnet
  3. 3
    religion appropriate to a church and to ecclesiastical principles and practices wordnet

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"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."

Etymology

From ecclesiastic + -ism.

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