ecclesiasticism

English

Etymology

From ecclesiastic +‎ -ism.

Noun

ecclesiasticism (countable and uncountable, plural ecclesiasticisms)

1. 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.