单词 | new lightism |
释义 | † New Lightismn. Christian Church. Obsolete. Belief in, or the practice of, New Light doctrines. ΚΠ 1755 in Essex Inst. Historical Coll. (1916) LII. 78 He seems a grave, close heavy Man, not given to talk & deeply immerged in New Lightism. 1845 S. Judd Margaret i. vii. 42 The town underwent and survived..Antinomianism, Newlightism, Scotch Presbyterianism. 1857 P. Cartwright Autobiogr. 32 B. W. Stone stuck to his New Lightism. 1876 W. C. Fowler Essays 57 Those of his church and congregation..who favored ‘Old Lightism’, and those who favored ‘New Lightism’, all united in giving him their confidence and support. 1884 Atlantic Monthly 54 247 In 1740 Mr Whitefield ‘opened the Deluge of New Lightism on the churches’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1755 |
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