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Noun [English]

Forms: Methodisms [plural]
Etymology: From method + -ism. Fellow students at the University of Oxford called Wesley and his followers "methodists" because they lived and practiced their faith methodically; Wesley adopted the designation. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|method|ism}} method + -ism Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} Methodism (usually uncountable, plural Methodisms)
  1. The Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley in 18th-century England. Tags: uncountable, usually Hypernyms: Protestantism Translations (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley): metodismu [masculine] (Asturian), metodismo (Basque), метады́зм (mjetadýzm) [masculine] (Belarusian), методизъм (metodizǎm) [masculine] (Bulgarian), metodisme [masculine] (Catalan), 循道宗 (Xúndàozōng) (Chinese Mandarin), 衛理宗 /卫理宗 (Wèilǐzōng) (Chinese Mandarin), metodismus [masculine] (Czech), metodisme [common-gender] (Danish), methodisme [neuter] (Dutch), metodismo (Esperanto), metodism (Estonian), metodismi (Finnish), méthodisme [masculine] (French), metodismo [masculine] (Galician), Methodismus [masculine] (German), μεθοδισμός (methodismós) [masculine] (Greek), metodizmus (Hungarian), metodismo [masculine] (Italian), メソジズム (mesojizumu) (Japanese), 감리교 (gamnigyo) (alt: 監理敎) (Korean), metodisms [masculine] (Latvian), metodi̇̀zmas [masculine] (Lithuanian), методизам (metodizam) [masculine] (Macedonian), metodisme [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), metodisme [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), metodyzm [masculine] (Polish), metodismo [masculine] (Portuguese), metodism [neuter] (Romanian), методи́зм (metodízm) [masculine] (Russian), методизам [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), metodizam [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), metodizmus [masculine] (Slovak), metodizem [masculine] (Slovene), metodismo [masculine] (Spanish), metodism [common-gender] (Swedish), методи́зм (metodýzm) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
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  2. Any of several related movements. Tags: uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-Methodism-en-noun-LTMvsAa6 Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -ism Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ism: 50 50

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    "en:Methodism"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "method",
        "3": "ism"
      },
      "expansion": "method + -ism",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From method + -ism. Fellow students at the University of Oxford called Wesley and his followers \"methodists\" because they lived and practiced their faith methodically; Wesley adopted the designation.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Methodisms",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
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      },
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    }
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  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "word": "Protestantism"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              28,
              37
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 15, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Far more Yankees shifted to Methodism, an eighteenth-century splinter from the Anglican Church with an emphasis on effecting social change[.]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "The Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley in 18th-century England."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
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          "Methodist"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Any of several related movements."
      ],
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        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "metodismu"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "word": "metodismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "mjetadýzm",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "метады́зм"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "metodizǎm",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "методизъм"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "metodisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Xúndàozōng",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "word": "循道宗"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Wèilǐzōng",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "word": "衛理宗 /卫理宗"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "metodismus"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "metodisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "methodisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "word": "metodismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "word": "metodism"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "word": "metodismi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "méthodisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "metodismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Methodismus"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "methodismós",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "μεθοδισμός"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "word": "metodizmus"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "metodismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "mesojizumu",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "word": "メソジズム"
    },
    {
      "alt": "監理敎",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "gamnigyo",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "word": "감리교"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "metodisms"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "metodi̇̀zmas"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "metodizam",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "методизам"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "metodisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "metodisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "metodyzm"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "metodismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "metodism"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "metodízm",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "методи́зм"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "методизам"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "metodizam"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "metodizmus"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "metodizem"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "metodismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "metodism"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "metodýzm",
      "sense": "Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "методи́зм"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Methodism"
}

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