externalismn.
1. Excessive regard for what is external, to the neglect of what is essential, esp. in religion; an instance of this.
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society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > rule, rubric > [noun] > conformity to > slavish
formalizinga1656
externalness1667
rituality1679
externality1833
ritualism1838
rubricism1840
ecclesiolatry1847
ceremonialism1854
externalism1856
formalism1856
exterioritya1875
liturgism1926
spikery1965
1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics I. vi. ii. 204 The despotic externalism of the time.
1875 Mrs. Charles in Sunday Mag. May 506 Pharisaic formalities and externalisms.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. ix. xxxix. 265 Christianity might be frittered away into a troublesome and censorious externalism.
2. The worship of the external world.
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society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of the external world
externalism1874
1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 11 This is the very madness of externalism.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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