Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Pastoral life or occupation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Pastoral life or occupation.

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  • noun pastoral life or occupation

Etymologies

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shepherd +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • Peutingeriana "(a fourth-century map of the imperial road-system radiating from Constantinople), and the" Synecdemos "of Hierocles, a sixth-century account of the sixty-four Byzantine provinces and their more than 900 cities, these episcopal lists enable us to follow the continuity of Christian public life in Asia Minor throughout the troubled cneturies of political and economic decay that finally ended in the blank horror of Islamitic shepherdism.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

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