exoterism
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
exoterism (plural exoterisms)
- The outward forms that religion takes; the institutional aspects of faith and religion, such as rituals, moral precepts, and institutions.
- 1875. Gordon Campbell, Wilson Edward William Morrison, E B Iwan-Müller, Frederick Sanders Pulling, Francis Griffin Stokes, The Shotover Papers, Or, Echoes from Oxford, University of Oxford, page 73,
- It is not however easy -- perhaps it is impossible -- to reveal a discovery so wonderful by popular exoterism on the point: posterity will amplify and expound in dry but acumonious logic what I have here only to put forth in its great Severity and Profundity.
- 1919. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled: A Master Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science, The Aryan Theosophical Press, page 535,
- The thought of the present-day commentator and critic as to the ancient learning, is limited to and runs round the exoterism of the temples...
- 2003. Reiner Schürmann, Reginald Lilly, Broken Hegemonies, Indiana University Press, page 248,
- In their exoterism, they showed civic sense is most demanding.
- 1875. Gordon Campbell, Wilson Edward William Morrison, E B Iwan-Müller, Frederick Sanders Pulling, Francis Griffin Stokes, The Shotover Papers, Or, Echoes from Oxford, University of Oxford, page 73,
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- exoterism, in New Encyclopedia of Islam.
Anagrams[edit]
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French exotérisme.
Noun[edit]
exoterism n (uncountable)
Declension[edit]
declension of exoterism (singular only)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) exoterism | exoterismul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) exoterism | exoterismului |
| vocative | exoterismule | |