Dissentism
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English
Noun
Dissentism (uncountable)
- (historical, Protestantism) The beliefs or practices of the English Dissenters.
- 1851, Joseph Irons, Zion has nothing to fear from Popery, page 4:
- The natural man will be carried away, and will flit about with the wind of every false doctrine. Protestantism may go over to Puseyism; Dissentism may go over to Congregationalism; and all may merge into Catholicism; but what of all that?
- 1859, William Chadwick, The Life and Times of Daniel Defoe, John Russell Smith, →ISBN, page 44:
- Is it a second Church-of-England establishment, created out of the taxes, in order to strengthen the patronage of the executive power, according to its imaginary requirements, from the healthy growth of Protestant dissentism?
- 2004, Denys Leighton, The Greenian Moment, Imprint Academic, →ISBN:
- The present study examines an aspect of Green's professional and political life that has been noted but never adequately explained by previous studies — namely, his philo-Dissentism.
References
- “Dissentism”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
