byzantinism

1. 1.

   the doctrine that the state is supreme over the church in ecclesiastical matters

   SynonymsErastianismCaesaropapism

   Broadertheological doctrine

Other forms of byzantinism

plural

byzantinisms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about byzantinism

What does byzantinism mean?

byzantinism means "the doctrine that the state is supreme over the church in ecclesiastical matters".

How many syllables are in byzantinism?

byzantinism has 4 syllables: by-zan-ti-nism. The stress falls on "zan".

What is another word for byzantinism?

Close synonyms include Erastianism, Caesaropapism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is byzantinism a common word?

byzantinism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.