Word Meanings - SACRAMENTALISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The doctrine and use of sacraments; attashment of excessive importance to sacraments.

Related words: (words related to SACRAMENTALISM)

• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• IMPORTANCE
  1. The quality or state of being important; consequence; weight; moment; significance. Thy own importance know, Nor bound thy narrow views to things below. Pope. 2. Subject; matter. Upon importance of so slight and trivial a nature. Shak.
• DOCTRINE
  1. Teaching; instruction. He taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, Hearken. Mark iv. 2. 2. That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or
• MONROE DOCTRINE
  See DOCTRINE
• UNIMPORTANCE
  Want of importance; triviality. Johnson.
• SELF-IMPORTANCE
  An exaggerated estimate of one's own importance or merit, esp. as manifested by the conduct or manners; self-conceit.
• ENDOCTRINE
  To teach; to indoctrinate. Donne.