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eradicationism

noun

Etymology

From eradication + -ism. Coined around 1900 by people from the circle of Dwight L. Moody.

  1. borrowed from ērādīcātiō
  2. suffixed as eradicationism — “eradication + ism”

Definitions

  1. The belief that something (often disease or a cultural trait) must be eliminated.

  2. Strict holiness

    Strict holiness; a radical, Wesleyan holiness teaching that considers that sin is or will be completely eliminated from true believers (originally used only by opponents)

    • The root error of eradicationism of the flesh has room to grow only in the false conception of "flesh," as a mere tendency to evil quite apart from the natural body.

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