Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The doctrine that the world is evil, or that, on the whole, evil prevails over good: a less extreme doctrine than pessimism.

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  • noun The belief that the world is evil.

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Examples

  • Foreign Minister Alain Juppe criticized Washington's mini-malism, citing its continued refusal to commit ground forces to a United Nations contingent and its unwillingness to use air power to protect the Muslims.

    The Latest Peace Plan: Dead On Arrival? 2008

  • Propp's techniques, though they have had wide impact, did not receive much recognition in Soviet Russia until re - cently because, at a time when Socialist Realism drew the strictest ideological lines, they savored of For - malism — an ironic circumstance, in view of the for - malistic objections lodged against Stoffgeschichte.

    MOTIF HARRY LEVIN 1968

  • Peter Stringfellow does femanism?? would someone please tell me what the opposite of femanism is, malism doesnt seem quite right, but the again if a bloke got promoted through wearing a tight fitting officer and gentleman uniform and rubbing skin cream on after office weights workout everyday, what would that constsitute??

    Guy Fawkes' blog 2009

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  • The belief that the world is evil. (From WWFTD)

    June 7, 2008

  • Our Puritan ancestors hail

    The proof that their truths do not fail:

    A heaven-sent talisman

    Of obdurate malism -

    The goblin’s allowed to prevail.

    March 4, 2019