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单词 gnosticism
释义

gnosticism

noun

gnos·​ti·​cism ˈnä-stə-ˌsi-zəm How to pronounce gnosticism (audio)
often capitalized
: the thought and practice especially of various cults of late pre-Christian and early Christian centuries distinguished by the conviction that matter is evil and that emancipation comes through gnosis

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web In this sense, the woke dialect is a new kind of gnosticism, separating the elite from the great unwashed. Nate Hochman, National Review, 12 Feb. 2022 In effect, as Del Noce argued throughout his career, Marxism was and is a new form of an old heresy, gnosticism. Francis X. Maier, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2022

Word History

Etymology

see gnostic

First Known Use

1664, in the meaning defined above

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