tractarianism

1. 1.

   principles of the founders of the Oxford movement as expounded in pamphlets called `Tracts for the Times'

   SynonymsPuseyism

   BroaderChristianity

Other forms of tractarianism

plural

tractarianisms·

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 tractarianism

What does tractarianism mean?

tractarianism means "principles of the founders of the Oxford movement as expounded in pamphlets called `Tracts for the Times'".

How many syllables are in tractarianism?

tractarianism has 5 syllables: trac-ta-ri-a-nism. The stress falls on "ri".

What is another word for tractarianism?

Close synonyms include Puseyism. 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 tractarianism a common word?

tractarianism 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.