creaturism

English

Etymology

creature +‎ -ism

Noun

creaturism (uncountable)

1. animalistic behaviour
   • 1872, Charles Henry Parry, John E. Eardley-Wilmot, A Memoir of the Revd. Joshua Parry: Nonconformist Minister of Cirencester:

     The selfishness of this sort, with reverence I write it, is no more creaturism than it is creatorism. For a being that acts, whether created or uncreated, must act from some principle; and if that principle is good, the conduct flowing from it must certainly bestow pleasure.

   • 1906, The Overland Monthly, volume 48, page 446:

     […] abolitionists failed to take into account […] the negro's native creaturism. After their liberation, the negroes mistook license for liberty. They gathered in the towns, gave themselves over to creature pleasures, and forsook the useful habits of duty which slavery had instilled.