Sabbathism

English

Etymology

Sabbath +‎ -ism

Noun

Sabbathism (uncountable)

1. (dated, Christianity) The tendency to treat the Sabbath as a solemn religious occasion rather than merely as a day off.

   Antonym: holidayism

   • 1884, The Outlook and Sabbath Quarterly, volumes 3-6, page 325:

     […] they do not want the lowest forms of excitement, or of literature; they want something which shall occupy the middle ground between the debauchery of low holidayism and the religious observance which comes with Sabbathism.

   • 1892, Abram Herbert Lewis, Paganism Surviving in Christianity:

     As to Sunday legislation we have seen that its origin was absolutely pagan, and that it has been destructive of true Sabbathism at all times.