confessionalism
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
confessional + -ism
Noun[edit]
confessionalism (countable and uncountable, plural confessionalisms)
- (religion) A belief in the importance of full and unambiguous assent to the whole of a religious teaching.
- (poetry) A style of American poetry that draws on the personal history of the poet.
- A system of government that proportionally distributes political and institutional power among religious and ethnic communities.