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Definition of Fideistic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fideistic
Literary usage of Fideistic
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 (1913)
"It is also a fideistic attitude which is the occasion of agnosticism, of positivism,
... In 1348, the Holy See proscribed certain fideistic propositions of ..."
2. The Theater of Man: J.L. Vives on Society by José A Fernández-Santamaría (1998)
"Only by abandoning all fideistic elements and reverting to the old idea of rational
knowledge as Knowledge could the Renaissance skeptic have brought ..."
3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1898)
"Now, if we consider religious events from the same point of view we shall see
that the so-called positive or revealed religions correspond to the fideistic ..."
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