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Romanism

noun

Etymology

From Roman + -ism, after Romanist. Compare Romish.

  1. derived from Rōmānus
  2. derived from Romain
  3. suffixed as romanism — “Roman + ism”

Definitions

  1. The tenets of the Church of Rome

    The tenets of the Church of Rome; the Roman Catholic religion.

    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA