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Definition of Methodism

1. Noun. The religious beliefs and practices of Methodists characterized by concern with social welfare and public morals.

Definition of Methodism

1. n. The system of doctrines, polity, and worship, of the sect called Methodists.

Definition of Methodism

1. Noun. The Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley in 18th-century England. ¹

2. Noun. Any of several related movements. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Methodism

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Medical Definition of Methodism

1. The system of doctrines, polity, and worship, of the sect called Methodists. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Methodism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In spite of their early relations with American Methodism, ... The Provinces of Ontario and Quebec received Methodism at an early date from the United ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"1881; HN McTyeire, Hist, of Methodism. Nashville, 1886; JG Jones, A Complete Hist, of Methodism as Connected with the Mississippi Conference of the ..."

3. A Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British ...by British Museum Dept. of Printed Books, George Knottesford Fortescue by British Museum Dept. of Printed Books, George Knottesford Fortescue (1891)
"POCOCK (WW) Sketch of the history of Methodism in the southern counties of England, pp. 79. ... SLATER (WF) Methodism in the light of the Ear!y Church, pp. ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"This first Oxford Methodism was тегу churchly Between 1733 and 1735, however, ... The original Methodism of Oxford never at any one time seems to have ..."

5. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1881)
"Methodism is mindful of its obligations, yet jealous of its independence ... The attempt to indicate the influence of sporadic Methodism would lead us too ..."

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