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Webster 1913 Edition


Confessionalism

Con-fes′sion-al-ism

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Noun.
(Eccl.)
An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith.
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Definition 2024


confessionalism

confessionalism

English

Noun

confessionalism (countable and uncountable, plural confessionalisms)

  1. (religion) A belief in the importance of full and unambiguous assent to the whole of a religious teaching.
  2. (poetry) A style of American poetry that draws on the personal history of the poet.
  3. A system of government in Lebanon that proportionally distributes political and institutional power among religious and ethnic communities.