English edit

Etymology edit

church +‎ -ism

Noun edit

churchism (countable and uncountable, plural churchisms)

  1. Strict adherence to the forms or principles of some church organization.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for churchism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)