Definitions
Etymologies
- From manes ("spirit of the ancestors") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Now I'm all for African brotherhood and sisterhood, in spite of recent attempts to shake my faith :- , but honestly why do we persist in an empty big-manism - Perhaps there's a logic to this, so if you know it, please let me know...”
“As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a compound made up chiefly of manism with but little Deism, and is near to Atheism as twilight is to darkness.”
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“This “man of sin” is a manism, or a power under the government of man, and is identical with the beast power of Rev. 13.”
“Jude foresees the great dark beastly manism that was to darken the earth in the clear day, the same as was seen by the”
“There is no manism in the church of God, therefore it is not animal or beastly.”
“This beast religion — manism — the Catholic sect, was now looked upon as the church.”
“The rustler, brand-burner or brand-blotcher now became one of the new Western characters, and a new sort of bad-manism had its birth.”
“Every face seemed to have been squeezed into the same mould, to grow it into one particular make, which was inexpressive, inanimate, and dull, while they all wore the look of being on the high-road to old-manism without having been allowed to stop and play on the way, and be boys.”
“Only later, was this twisted to show evidence of his so called 'one-manism' and petit bourgeois tendencies of self-promotion.”
“Along the way, in a piece that reeks of elite anti-elitism and uncommon-man common-manism, the writer lets the mask slip at the nearly conjugal moment of declaring that the beloved Tea Party rabble needs a Dear Leader:”
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