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maculism

noun

Etymology

From maculate + -ism, or a back-formation from immaculism.

  1. derived from maculātus
  2. inherited from maculaten — “to spoil, polute”
  3. inherited from maculaten
  4. formed as maculism — “maculate + -ism”

Definitions

  1. Rejection of belief in the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.

    • As maculism ceased to be a viable option in Catholic theology, however, theologians who argued that Mary had some debt to Adam, proximate or remote, often adhered to some form of mitigated Thomism or mitigated Scotism […].

The neighborhood

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