Definition of Minimism

1. the inclination to reduce a dogma [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Minimism

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minimills
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minimisers
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minimism (current term)
minimisms
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Literary usage of Minimism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Essays on the Church's Doctrinal Authority by William George Ward (1880)
"I will not here argue at all against the truth of minimism, because there is quite sufficient argument of that kind in the following Essays. ..."

2. William George Ward and the Catholic Revival by Wilfrid Philip Ward (1893)
"The spirit of mutual concession, on the other hand, of the promoters of union involved " minimism" on both sides as a necessary condition; ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In recommending the Creed he would employ "a wise and gentle minimism", not extenuating what was true but setting down nought in malice. ..."

4. The Life of John Henry, Cardinal Newman: Based on His Private Journals and by Wilfrid Philip Ward (1912)
"Pusey treated Newman's repudiation of the excesses of Ward and Faber as an assertion of that principle of ' minimism ' which WG Ward was constantly ..."

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