Word Meanings - CONFESSIONALISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith. Shaff.

Related words: (words related to CONFESSIONALISM)

• ASSENTATORY
  Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv.
• CHRISTIAN
  1. One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ. The disciples were called Christians first
• SHAFFLER
  A hobbler; one who limps; a shuffer.
• ASSENTER
  One who assents.
• GIVES
  Fetters.
• CHRISTIAN ERA
  The era in use in all Christian countries, which was intended to commence with the birth of Christ. The era as now established was first used by Dionysius Exiguus , who placed the birth of Christ on the 25th of December in the year of Rome 754,
• FAITHLESS
  1. Not believing; not giving credit. Be not faithless, but believing. John xx. 27. 2. Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion. Shak. 3. Not observant of promises or covenants. 4. Not true
• EXAGGERATOR
  One who exaggerates; one addicted to exaggeration. L. Horner.
• GIVING
  1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. Pope. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving
• CHRISTIANITE
  Same as Anorthite. See Phillipsite.
• ASSENTMENT
  Assent; agreement.
• PARTICULARITY
  1. The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail. 2. That which is particular; as: Peculiar quality; individual characteristic; peculiarity. "An old heathen altar with this particularity."
• PARTICULARLY
  1. In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly. 2. In an especial manner; in a high degree; as, a particularly fortunate man; a particularly bad failure. The exact propriety of Virgil
• EXAGGERATIVE
  Tending to exaggerate; involving exaggeration. "Exaggerative language." Geddes. "Exaggerative pictures." W. J. Linton. -- Ex*ag"ger*a*tive*ly, adv. Carlyle.
• FORMULARIZATION
  The act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition. C. Kingsley.
• CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM
  Any theory or system that aims to combine the teachings of Christ with the teachings of socialism in their applications to life; Christianized socialism; esp., the principles of this nature advocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others
• PARTICULARISM
  The doctrine of particular election. (more info) 1. A minute description; a detailed statement.
• CHRISTIANIZATION
  The act or process of converting or being converted to a true Christianity.
• ESTIMATE
  1. To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic , or intrinsic , value; to fix the worth of roughly or in a general way; as, to estimate the value of goods or land; to estimate the worth or talents
• EXAGGERATION
  A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor. (more info) 1. The act of heaping or piling up. "Exaggeration of sand." Sir M. Hale. 2. The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive
• ANTICHRISTIANISM; ANTICHRISTIANITY
  Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion.
• TERGIVERSATOR
  One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
• THANKSGIVING
  1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. And taught by thee
• ALMSGIVING
  The giving of alms.
• MISGIVING
  Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South.
• UNFAITH
  Absence or want of faith; faithlessness; distrust; unbelief. Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers: Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. Tennyson.
• FUNGIVOROUS
  Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.
• REGIVE
  To give again; to give back.
• FORGIVER
  One who forgives. Johnson.
• OGIVE
  The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally.
• UNFAITHFUL
  1. Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant. My feet, through wine, unfaithful to their weight. Pope. His