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

  • noun The teachings of the Talmud, or adherence to them.

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  • His gigantic annotations scarcely belong to criticism at all; they are musical talmudism.

    A Book of Prefaces 1918

  • The frank theocracy of the New England colonies had scarcely succumbed to the libertarianism of a godless Crown before there came the Great Awakening of 1734, with its orgies of homiletics and its restoration of talmudism to the first place among polite sciences.

    A Book of Prefaces 1918

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