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Definition of Modernism

1. Noun. Genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres.

2. Noun. The quality of being current or of the present. "A shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village"

3. Noun. Practices typical of contemporary life or thought.

Definition of Modernism

1. n. Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.

2. n. Certain methods and tendencies which, in Biblical questions, apologetics, and the theory of dogma, in the endeavor to reconcile the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church with the conclusions of modern science, replace the authority of the church by purely subjective criteria; -- so called officially by Pope Pius X.

Definition of Modernism

1. Noun. Modern or contemporary ideas, thought, practices, etc. ¹

2. Noun. Anything that is characteristic of modernity. ¹

3. Noun. any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century ¹

4. Noun. a religious movement in the early 20th century that tried to reconcile Roman Catholic dogma with modern science and philosophy ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Modernism

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Modernism

modern physics modern times modern world moderner modernes modernest modernisable modernisation modernisations modernise

modernised moderniser modernisers modernises modernising modernism (current term) modernisms modernist modernista modernistas

modernistic modernists modernities modernity modernizable modernization modernizations modernize modernized modernizer

Literary usage of Modernism

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)
"If so, one must not then oppose the position of modernism to the Catholic position ... modernism is pantheistic also by its doctrine of science and faith. ..."

2. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society by Massachusetts Historical Society (1908)
"modernism. tradition has grown up during the course of three centuries ... Dr. DeNormandie read his third and concluding paper :* modernism To those outside ..."

3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1908)
"Q. Dogmatic authority of the papacy: the encyclical on modernism. J: Ireland. No. ... Encyclical on modernism; rights of ttie supreme pontiff. ..."

4. A Manual of the History of Dogmas by Bernard John Otten (1918)
"C — modernism 12 Pius X, in his Encyclical Pascendi, of September 8, 1907, designates modernism as a synthesis of all heresies. ..."

5. The Struggle for Christian Truth in Italy by Giovanni Luzzi (1913)
"vn modernism, OR THE PRESENT EFFORT FOR REFORM WITHIN THE ROMAN CHURCH THE term " modernism " is quite familiar to us all. Every one talks of modernism; ..."

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