Mahometanism

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A form of Mohammedanism — Islam, the religion introduced by Muhammad.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativearchaicobsoleteAlternative form of Mohammedanism.

    […] in the true style of Mahometanism, [women] are treated as a kind of subordinate beings, and not as a part of the human species, when improveable reason is allowed to be the dignified distinction which raises men above the brute creation, and puts a natural scepter in feeble hand.

    1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC

Origin

From Mahometan + -ism.

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Mahometanism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mahometanism

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Chicago

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