ecclesiasticism

noun

ecclesiasticism

noun

Etymology From ecclesiastic + -ism.

1

Strong attachment to ecclesiastical customs and practices.

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.1903, Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, Studies in Napoleonic Statemanship Germany, page 278:

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