Essaism en · NOUN
Etymology
From Essene + -ism.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Synonym of Essenism.
Love of truth was inculcated by Essaism, as by Parsism and Buddhism, and was promised by an oath.
1880, Ernst von Bunsen, The Angel-messiah of Buddhists, Essenes, and Christians, page 129:In the Epistle to the Colossians, which both date and contents connect with the encyclical Epistle, he denounces a Judaistic amalgamation of Christianity with Essaism.
1852, Heinrich Wilhelm Josias Thiersch, The history of the Christian Church, page 139:How difficult this investigation, how doubtful its results, may be understood when we mention that Hilgenfeld says, Jüdische Apocalyptik, p. 245: "Essaism is the most enigmatical phenomenon of later Judaism ; " and Lucius (der Essenismus, p. 63) makes a remark precisely similar.
1891, John Ebenezer Honeyman Thomson, Books which Influenced Our Lord and His Apostles: