Sabbathism
English
Etymology
Sabbath + -ism
Noun
Sabbathism (uncountable)
- (dated, Christianity) The tendency to treat the Sabbath as a solemn religious occasion rather than merely as a day off.
- Antonym: holidayism
- 1884, The Outlook and Sabbath Quarterly (volumes 3-6, page 325)
- […] they do not want the lowest forms of excitement, or of literature; they want something which shall occupy the middle ground between the debauchery of low holidayism and the religious observance which comes with Sabbathism.
- 1892, Abram Herbert Lewis, Paganism Surviving in Christianity
- As to Sunday legislation we have seen that its origin was absolutely pagan, and that it has been destructive of true Sabbathism at all times.