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2,678 words match “ISM”

DONATISM n.
The tenets of the Donatists.
DONNISM n.
Self-importance; loftiness of carriage. [Cant, Eng. Universities]
DORICISM n.
A Doric phrase or idiom.
DORISM n.
A Doric phrase or idiom.
DOUGHFACEISM n.
The character of a doughface; truckling pliability.
DOWAGERISM n.
as that of a dowager. Also used figuratively. Mansions that have passed away into dowagerism. Thackeray.
DRUIDISM n.
The system of religion, philosophy, and instruction, received and taught by the Druids; the rites and ceremonies of the Druids.
DUALISM n. 3 definitions
State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction; as:
DYNAMISM n.
The doctrine of Leibnitz, that all substance involves force.
DYNAMITISM n.
The work of dynamiters.
EBIONITISM n.
The system or doctrine of the Ebionites.
ECCLESIASTICISM n.
Strong attachment to ecclesiastical usages, forms, etc.
ECLECTICISM n.
Theory or practice of an eclectic.
ECTORGANISM n.
An external parasitic organism.
EGOISM n. 2 definitions
of regarding one's self as the center of every interest; selfishness; -- opposed to altruism.
EGOMISM n.
Egoism. [R.] A. Baxter.
EGOTHEISM n.
The deification of self. [R.]
EGOTISM n.
nifying one's self or parading one's own doings. The word is also used in the sense of egoism. His excessive egotism, which filled all objects with himself. Hazlitt.
ELEATICISM n.
The Eleatic doctrine.
ELECTICISM n.
See Eclecticism.
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