ecclesiasticism
- n excessive adherence to ecclesiastical forms and activities
their ecclesiasticism overwhelmed their religion - n religion appropriate to a church and to ecclesiastical principles and practices
- Christ has been crucified many times by ecclesiasticism.
- Or was it the ecclesiasticism reaches, as everyone knows, from Maine to California, from Mississippi Baptists to Princeton theologues.
- It is about time the modern businessman broke away from the thralldom of medieval ecclesiasticism.