religionism

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His was an eclectic philosophy and religionism, of which all the elements were discoverable in old Hebrew books: scraps of Alexandrian philosophy inextricably blent with Aristotelian, Platonic, mystic.

From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel

On the other hand, exclusive religionism has too much consciousness of secret sympathy with its avowed antipodes, to enjoy itself much better.

From Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs by Codman, John Thomas

I do not suppose that much of our modern religionism is in great danger from too fervid emotion.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Maclaren, Alexander

The austerity of his manners frightens his old father, who can little comprehend the religionism of the new school.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace

But it is useful for us to know it, notwithstanding its background of gloomy religionism and its air of unreality; for it helps us to understand the character of Puritan women and of Philip Stubbes.

From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Earle, Alice Morse