Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The doctrine that the soul has existed in a previous state and was infused or poured into the body at conception or birth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The doctrine that the soul is preexistent to the body, and is infused into it at conception or birth; -- opposed to
traducianism andcreationism .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
doctrine that thesoul exists before thebody and isinfused into it atconception orbirth .
Etymologies
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infusion + -ism
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Examples
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Now, kapnimancy and infusionism may both fit as tight as two trivets but while we in our wee free state, holding to that prestatute in our charter, may have our irremovable doubts as to the whole sense of the lot, the interpretation of any phrase in the whole, the meaning of every word of a phrase so far de-ciphered out of it, however unfettered our Irish daily indepen — dence, we must vaunt no idle dubiosity as to its genuine author — ship and holusbolus authoritativeness.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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