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Definition of Deisms
1. deism [n] - See also: deism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deisms
Literary usage of Deisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1844)
"Richardson, 4 deisms. 10R (a) The Writ of A'i Exeat will not in general be granted,
except in cases of equitable debts and claims, not recoverable at law. ..."
2. The Fortnightly Review (1880)
"... social disorders, and actually stimulating the passion for war and conquest ?
Or shall we turn to the deisms and the ..."
3. Monthly Review (1821)
"... the impolicy of the government that, instead of ruling a nation, deisms merely
to be the leader of a faction. ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1880)
"That i-tiL "I now come, sir, because I wish to be very br.ef and will take an
opportunity hereafter, if i' W necessary, to refer to authorities and deisms ..."
5. Two Hundred Years: The History of the Society for Promoting Christian by William Osborne Bird Allen, Edmund McClure (1898)
"... the country to convert the Quakers) eighty greater Catechisms, one hundred
and thirty lesser, twenty-four Narratives, and fifty of Penn's deisms.* 3. ..."
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