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- noun the
political andeconomic policies of theBritish Conservative prime minister Sir John Major
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Examples
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Majorism: holding your Party together while your country falls apart.
Labour party yap from 1996. FIDO The Dog 2009
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"There isn't such a thing as Majorism," she declared then, adding: "Thatcherism will live."
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Its chief object, the _Supplication_ said, would be to pass on adiaphorism, Majorism, and synergism, all participants in the Synod having previously been pledged on the
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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Majorism and synergism, in sermons on the Letter to the Galatians of
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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Adiaphorism, Osiandrism, Majorism, and the doctrine of the Lord's
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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Osiander's error, although at the colloquy in Worms, 1557, he, too, was opposed to condemning Osiandrism together with Zwinglianism, Majorism, and Adiaphorism, as the theologians of Ducal Saxony demanded.
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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The burden of both, Majorism and synergism, was the denial of the _sola gratia.
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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Majorism, Melanchthon must be regarded as the real father also of this controversy.
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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Majorism, the mingling of sanctification and justification, and synergism, the mingling of nature and grace, were but veiled efforts to open once more the doors of the Lutheran Church to the Roman work-righteousness, which Luther had expelled.
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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The theological connection between Majorism and synergism is much closer than is generally realized.
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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