Meanings
nounLullism (uncountable)
alternative Llullism
- uncountableThe philosophy of Ramon Llull, based on a search for truth in all areas of knowledge.
The Dominicans had their own art of memory. But the other great Order of preaching friars, the Franciscans, evinced an interest in Lull, and Lullism in its later history is very often to be found associated with Franciscans.
1966, Frances A. Yates, chapter 8, in The Art of Memory, Pimlico, published 2001, →ISBN, page 176
Origin
Named after Ramon Llull (c. 1232–c. 1315) + -ism
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan lul·lisme
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French lullisme
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German Lullismus
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Spanish lulismo
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