English Dictionary: modernism | by the DICT Development Group |
3 results for modernism | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Modernism \Mod"ern*ism\, n. Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Modernism \Mod"ern*ism\, n. Certain methods and tendencies which, in Biblical questions, apologetics, and the theory of dogma, in the endeavor to reconcile the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church with the conclusions of modern science, replace the authority of the church by purely subjective criteria; -- so called officially by Pope Pius X. |