ecclesiasticism

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun excessive adherence to ecclesiastical forms and activities
noun religion appropriate to a church and to ecclesiastical principles and practices

From ecclesiastic + -ism.

Psychically they were affected as by ecclesiasticism. — The best short stories of 1917, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
His practical genius, and his free converse with general society (from which Manning deliberately turned away as fatal to ecclesiasticism), very soon parted him from the theologians. — Studies in Literature and History, Alfred C., Sir Lyall
Nor do I think that the Christianity which is to prevail in India will be encased in the present ecclesiasticism which assumes and claims monopoly of our faith. — India, Its Life and Thought, John P. (John Peter) Jones

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