CONFESSIONALISM

Definition: CONFESSIONALISM

CONFESSIONALISM

Noun

1. An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Commercial Usage: CONFESSIONALISM

Domain	Title
Books	God and Politics: Four Views on the Reformation of Civil Government: Theonomy, Principled Pluralism, Christian America, National Confessionalism (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Non-Fiction Usage: CONFESSIONALISM

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Lebanon	A "Committee for Abolishing Confessionalism," which was called for in the Taif Accord, has not yet been formed. (references)
	Lebanon	One notable exception is the LAF which, through universal conscription and an emphasis on professionalism, has significantly reduced the role of confessionalism (or religious sectarianism) in that organization. (references)
Human Rights	Syria	According to public statements by his lawyer, in September Nayyuf was summoned to appear before an investigating court to respond to a complaint against him filed by Ba'th party lawyers for "inciting confessionalism, attempting to illegally change the Constitution, and publishing false reports abroad." Nayyuf was still out of the country when the summons was issued and had not returned to the country by year's end. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Usage Frequency: CONFESSIONALISM

"CONFESSIONALISM" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CONFESSIONALISM" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Derivations: CONFESSIONALISM

Rhyming with "CONFESSIONALISM"

Words rhyming with "CONFESSIONALISM" (pronounced 'Con*fes"sion*al*ism'): Abolitionism, Absenteeism, Absinthism, Absolutism, Academicism, Academism, Accidentalism, Achromatism, Acosmism, Acrobatism, Acrotism, Actinism, Adiaphorism, AEstheticism, Africanism, Agnosticism, Agonism, Agrarianism, Agriculturism, Albinism, Albinoism, Alcoholism, Alienism, Allodialism, Allomerism, Allomorphism, Allotheism, Alphabetism, Altruism, Amateurism, Americanism, Amorphism, Anabaptism, Anachorism, Anachronism, Anacrotism, Anagrammatism, Analogism, Anamorphism, Anarchism, Anathematism, Anatocism, Anatomism, Anchoretism, Andabatism, Aneurism, Anglicanism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Anglo-Saxonism. (additional references)

Anagrams: CONFESSIONALISM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-i-i-l-m-n-n-o-o-s-s-s"
	-2 letters: confessionals.
	-3 letters: confessional.
	-4 letters: confessions, finicalness, nonfamilies.
	-5 letters: ascensions, classifies, cloisonnes, confession, facsimiles, flimsiness, insomniacs, moniliases, monoclines, nonclasses, semicolons, semifinals, socialises, socialisms.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-i-i-l-m-n-n-o-o-s-s-s"
	+1 letter: confessionalisms.
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Alternative Orthography: CONFESSIONALISM

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 4F 4E 46 45 53 53 49 4F 4E 41 4C 49 53 4D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001111 01001110 01000110 01000101 01010011 01010011 01001001 01001111 01001110 01000001 01001100 01001001 01010011 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 004E 0046 0045 0053 0053 0049 004F 004E 0041 004C 0049 0053 004D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	2	245,945

CONFESSIONALISM

Definition: CONFESSIONALISM