eradicationism
nounEtymology From eradication + -ism. Coined around 1900 by people from the circle of Dwight L. Moody.
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The belief that something (often disease or a cultural trait) must be eliminated.
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Christianity, Protestantism Derogatory 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.1901 October, Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, “Biblical Notes and Queries”, in Record of Christian Work, volume 20, page 832: