maculism
maculism noun: rejection of belief in the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.
Noun
maculism (uncountable)
- Rejection of belief in the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.
- As maculism ceased to be a viable option in Catholic theology, however, theologians who argued that Mary had some debt to Adam, proximate or remote, often adhered to some form of mitigated Thomism or mitigated Scotism […].2016, Trent Pomplun, “Baroque Catholic Theologies of Christ and Mary”, in Ulrich Lehner et al., editors, The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology, 1600–1800, →ISBN, page 115
- Antonyms:
- immaculism
Antonyms of maculism
Origin of maculism
From maculate + -ism, or a back-formation from immaculism.
Questions about maculism
- What does maculism mean?
- Maculism means rejection of belief in the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.
- What part of speech is maculism?
- Maculism is a noun.
Words near maculism in the dictionary
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