ecclesiasticism
English edit
Etymology edit
ecclesiastic + -ism
Noun edit
ecclesiasticism (countable and uncountable, plural ecclesiasticisms)
- Strong attachment to ecclesiastical customs and practices.
- 1903, Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, Studies in Napoleonic Statemanship Germany, page 278:
- 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.