Sabbathism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The tendency to treat the Sabbath as a solemn religious occasion rather than merely as a day off. dated, uncountable

    "[…] they do not want the lowest forms of excitement, or of literature; they want something which shall occupy the middle ground between the debauchery of low holidayism and the religious observance which comes with Sabbathism."

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"[…] they do not want the lowest forms of excitement, or of literature; they want something which shall occupy the middle ground between the debauchery of low holidayism and the religious observance which comes with Sabbathism."

Etymology

From Sabbath + -ism.

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