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Mormonism|ˈmɔːmənɪz(ə)m|
[f. Mormon + -ism.]
The religious doctrine of the Mormons. Also fig.
1831Niles' Reg. 16 July 353/1 Mormonism..a new religion. 1834E. D. Howe (title) Mormonism unvailed. 1845J. H. Newman Ess. Developm. iv. §1. 241 A religion, such that men look at a convert to it with a feeling which no other sect raises, except Judaism, Socialism, or Mormonism. 1855A. L. Phillipps Mahometanism vi. 244 Socialism and Mormonism and infidelity taking the place of religion and social order. 1881W. G. Marshall Thro. Amer. viii. 184 Mormonism does not necessarily involve polygamy. 1913E. F. Benson Thorley Weir i. 33 ‘They can't all be serenading me.’ ‘I cannot imagine why not. A Mormonism of serenading young men is not illegal.’ 1929L. H. Creer Utah & Nation i. 3 Herein was also established the principle of modern revelation, one of the basic principles of Mormonism. 1958Mulder & Mortensen Among Mormons p. v, The learned journals have discovered in Mormonism a ripe field for scholarship. |