multitudinismn.

1850 Christian Union June 366/1 A gross multitudinism leads men further than they desire. These brethren have gone so far as to solicit the co-operation of men who are complete strangers to the truth.

1858 tr. J. H. Merle d'Aubigné in J. H. Merle d'Aubigné et al. Christianity in Three First Cent. 241 The second strife was between multitudinism and purism. Some thought that the Church should keep all the members which it contained, whether good or bad; [etc.].

1860 H. B. Wilson in Ess. & Rev. 146 The Comte Léon de Gasparin..laid it down..that the individualist principle supplies the true basis of the Church, and that by inaugurating the union between Church and State Constantine introduced..the false..principle of Multitudinism.

1866 Contemp. Rev. 1 92 The vicious multitudinism of the great public schools.

1870 Contemp. Rev. 14 390 Sentimental multitudinism, seeking to base itself on a loose humanitarianism.

1896 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 6 283 Others, sympathizing with his motives, shrink from excommunicating him; and thus ‘multitudinism’—as it has been called—creeps tacitly into churches whose bond of union is primâ facie doctrinal.

1925 R. V. Wynne State & its Ailments vi. 131 In the decline of the State, despotism and multitudinism have been the main causes.

2016 A.-L. Critchlow Against Trend iv. 91 It was in following ‘multitudinism’ that the Broad Church rejected the idea of hell.