religionism

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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

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

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

His doctrine of the Church had the disadvantage of an apparently intermediate and ambiguous position, refusing the broad, intelligible watchwords and reasonings of popular religionism.

From The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)

One of the most marked features of these lectures is the deep feeling which the preacher had of the emptiness and hollowness of the conventional religionism of the day.

From Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series by Robertson, Frederick William