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Definition of Presbyterianism
1. Noun. The doctrines and practices of the Presbyterian Church: based in Calvinism.
Definition of Presbyterianism
1. n. That form of church government which invests presbyters with all spiritual power, and admits no prelates over them; also, the faith and polity of the Presbyterian churches, taken collectively.
Definition of Presbyterianism
1. Noun. A form of Protestant Christianity based on Calvinism ¹
2. Noun. That form of church government which invests presbyters with all spiritual power, and admits no prelates over them; also, the faith and polity of the Presbyterian churches, taken collectively. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Presbyterianism
Literary usage of Presbyterianism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"So far as doctrine is concerned, presbyterianism and Calvinism are synonymous.
... The history of presbyterianism begins with the reorganization of the ..."
2. History of English Nonconformity from Wiclif to the Close of the Nineteenth by Henry William Clark (1911)
"A re-establishment of presbyterianism was at once voted, with all its necessary
concomitants—the acceptance of the Westminster Confession, the Solemn League ..."
3. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"presbyterianism had dethroned his father, and, once more in the ascendant, ...
But, if presbyterianism had been found incompatible with the Stewart ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1908)
"The predominance of national feeling in favour of presbyterianism was not so
decisive as to make it clear which form of polity should receive the preference ..."
5. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"So far as doctrine is concerned, presbyterianism and Calvinism are .synonymous.
... The history of presbyterianism begins with the reorganization of the ..."
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