1857 E. B. Pusey Real Presence (1869) 77 At the Conference at Worms a.d. 1557,..Flacius wrote to Christiern King of Denmark: ‘another maintains Majorism on the necessity of works to salvation’.

1884 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. III. 1827 The Weimar Confutatio (1559), in which synergism, majorism, adiaphorism, etc., are confuted.

1988 Times 14 Dec. 16/3 Majorism, it seems, like socialism, is the language of priorities. Consistency of policy, steadiness of aims, figure largely.

1990 Guardian 29 Nov. 1/1 The Opposition at Westminster was increasingly confident last night that ‘Majorism’ is Mark II Thatcherism.

1991 Parl. Affairs 44 Oct. 573 Empowerment will be the theme for the 1990s, giving Majorism a distinct difference from Thatcherism by addressing the problems of public service provision.

1993 Guardian 9 Feb. 19 It is clear that one of Majorism's key characteristics is a politics of cosmetic adjustment..(as in the origins of the Citizen's Charter in the case of public services).

1996 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 6 Dec. 25 It remains a central delusion of ‘Majorism’ (if such a corpus of thought can be said to exist) that such fundamental problems could be averted by opt-outs and a proliferation of worthy task forces—even in so inoffensive a field as excessive regulation.

1991 Sunday Times 10 Feb. 10/4 The prime minister paused. ‘Gentlemen,’ he said, in a phlegmatic Majorism..‘we had better start again somewhere else.’

1997 Guardian (Nexis) 1 May 13 ‘Britain is booming, but in a not unreasonable way.’ This was the perfect Majorism, combining windy bravura, litotes and mendacity.