methodism
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Methodism¹
Where it comes from
From method + -ism. Fellow students at the University of Oxford called Wesley and his followers "methodists" because they lived and practiced their faith methodically; Wesley adopted the designation.
noun Methodisms
- The Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley in 18th-century England. Far more Yankees shifted to Methodism, an eighteenth-century splinter from the Anglican Church with an emphasis on effecting social change[.]
- Any of several related movements.
methodism²
Where it comes from
From method + -ism.
noun
- The practice of adhering (often excessively) to methods. Descartes's methodism with its regulative criterion leads him to explicitly deny that accidentally true belief qualifies as knowledge.
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noun Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley
| Español | metodismo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 감리교 gamnigyo |
| 日本語 | メソジズム mesojizumu |
| 中文 | 循道宗 Xúndàozōng, 衛理宗 /卫理宗 Wèilǐzōng |
| Português | metodismo |
| Français | méthodisme |
| Deutsch | Methodismus |
| Italiano | metodismo |
| Ελληνικά | μεθοδισμός methodismós |
| Română | metodism |
| Русский | методи́зм metodízm |
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