Babylonisms

Noun

Babylonism (countable and uncountable, plural Babylonisms)

1. The belief that the Semitic faith and culture of the ancient Israelites was an outgrowth of Babylonian faith and culture.
   • Prof. Schrader, now of Berlin, and one of the first living Orientalists, follows with a contribution to the discussion concerning the origin of Hebraism, entitled “ Semitism and Babylonism , ” in which , from the treasures which Assyrian discoveries have opened to us , he shows , in his own words...1875 October, “Review of Current Literature”, in The Unitarian Review, volume 4, number 4, page 431
2. A borrowing or influence from the Babylonian language (a form the Akkadian language) or culture.
   • If somebody, with the view of remedying this Babylonism, were to write Chichero, Chelt, the Englishman would again make out of it Tshitshero (unknowingly that he italianizes) ; a Spaniard would do the same (thus concurring here with the Englishman);1854, Charles V. Kraitsir, Glossology, Being a Treatise on the Nature of Language and on the Language of Nature, page 79
3. (derogatory) Roman Catholicism; popery.
   • Mere Babylonism and sin in constitution; yea, the same that makes us no church For, what separation can there be in such admittance?1863, Joseph Hall, The Works of the Joseph Hall, page 103