ecclesiasticism

plural ecclesiasticisms

1. countableuncountableStrong attachment to ecclesiastical customs and practices.

   The methods of punishment were drastic and Orbilian; the curriculum and the textbooks two centuries behind the age; the informing spirit ecclesiasticism cut and dried.

   1903, Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, Studies in Napoleonic Statemanship Germany, page 278

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   It is this movement of thought, this current of religious aspirations setting strongly in the direction of ecclesiasticism, which is reflected, we may almost say arrested and crystallized, in the Priestly Code.

   1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 132