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- proper noun archaic
Mohammedanism ;Islam
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Examples
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Its effects are every where conspicuous, not only in the religious belief of the greater part of the inhabitants; but even where Mahometism is not actually established, in their manners, and customs, and in the predominance of the
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008
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Christism, Buddhism, Mahometism, are the necessary and structural action of the human mind.
Representative Men 2006
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A Turk is not, nor can be, either heretic or schismatic to a Christian; and if any man fall off from the Christian faith to Mahometism, he does not thereby become a heretic or schismatic, but an apostate and an infidel.
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In vain did the philosopher Plotinus solicit the emperor Gallienus to rebuild a ruined city in Campania, that he and his disciples might establish in it the republic of Plato: a system, in some points, flattering the passions of men, almost as Mahometism fell in with the prejudices and passions of the nations where it prevailed.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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Christism, Buddhism, Mahometism, are the necessary and structural action of the human mind.
Moon Lore Timothy Harley
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Our colossal theologies of Judaism, Christism, Buddhism, Mahometism, are the necessary and structural action of the human mind.
Uses of Great Men 1914
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Our colossal theologies of Judaism, Christism, Buddhism, Mahometism, are the necessary and structural action of the human mind.
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Mahometism, are the necessary and structural action of the human mind.
Representative Men Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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But what you can find in Mahometism which in the least militates against the evidences of Christianity I know not.
A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation Hosea Ballou 1811
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If the negroes should ever be disposed to lay aside their own hereditary superstitions, it is hardly a doubt but they will embrace Mahometism in preference to any other religious system, because it allows polygamy, flatters their prejudices in many other respects, and will induce a conformity of faith and manners with their northern and north-eastern neighbours.
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