Romanism
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editEtymology
editFrom Roman + -ism, after Romanist.
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editRomanism (uncountable)
- (chiefly derogatory) The tenets of the Church of Rome; the Roman Catholic religion. [from 17th c.]
- 1790 August 1, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:
- Romanism once extinguished, all other Sects will follow, and that the Catholic Religion—falsely so called—for Catholick means universal—is going, none now will venture to deny.
- 1866, Gilbert Haven, The Pilgrim's Wallet, page 8:
- Then I saw how a spot no larger than this could be crowded with millions of souls, and yet be apparently uninhabited. Romanism increases the degradation of tenantism, and rum completes it.
- 1967 December 1, Cornelius Van Til, The Defense of the Faith[1], 3rd edition, Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., page 71:
- It appears then that Warfield himself really suggests a better way of expressing such differences as obtain between Romanism and Protestantism, or between universalistic and particularistic Protestantism than he has himself employed.