Word Meanings - SACRAMENTALISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The doctrine and use of sacraments; attashment of excessive importance to sacraments.
Related words: (words related to SACRAMENTALISM)
- EXCESSIVE
Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly, - IMPORTANCE
1. The quality or state of being important; consequence; weight; moment; significance. Thy own importance know, Nor bound thy narrow views to things below. Pope. 2. Subject; matter. Upon importance of so slight and trivial a nature. Shak. - DOCTRINE
1. Teaching; instruction. He taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, Hearken. Mark iv. 2. 2. That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or - MONROE DOCTRINE
See DOCTRINE - UNIMPORTANCE
Want of importance; triviality. Johnson. - SELF-IMPORTANCE
An exaggerated estimate of one's own importance or merit, esp. as manifested by the conduct or manners; self-conceit. - ENDOCTRINE
To teach; to indoctrinate. Donne.