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Mahometanism

Mahometanism is the alternative form of Mohammedanism.

Meaning of Mohammedanism

Proper noun

Mohammedanism (uncountable)

  1. (now largely obsolete and offensive) Islam, the religion introduced by Muhammad.
    • In a general estimate of Mohammedanism it should not be forgotten what Islam has done for the cause of humanity and more particularly the share it had in the development of science and art in Europe. Broadly speaking, the Mohammedans may be said to have been the teachers of barbarous Europe from...1905, “Mohammedanism”, in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company
    Synonyms:
    Mohammedism

Origin of Mahometanism

From Mahometan + -ism.

Questions about Mahometanism

What is Mahometanism the alternative form of?
Mahometanism is the alternative form of Mohammedanism.

Words near Mahometanism in the dictionary

  1. Mahomedanism
  2. Mahomedans
  3. Mahomedism
  4. Mahomet
  5. Mahometan
  6. Mahometanism
  7. Mahometanize
  8. Mahometanized
  9. Mahometanizes
  10. Mahometanizing
  11. Mahometans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Mahometanism (page history and authors); Mohammedanism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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