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maculism en · NOUN

Etymology

From maculate + -ism, or a back-formation from immaculism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Rejection of belief in the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.
    • As maculism ceased to be a viable option in Catholic theology, however, theologians who argued that Mary had some debt to Adam, proximate or remote, often adhered to some form of mitigated Thomism or mitigated Scotism […]. 2016, Trent Pomplun, “Baroque Catholic Theologies of Christ and Mary”, in Ulrich Lehner et al., editors, The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology, 1600–1800, →ISBN, page 115:

Antonyms

immaculism

Relateds

maculist