"Methodism" meaning in English

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Noun

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 Categories (topical): Methodism Translations (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley): metodismo (Basque), методизъм (metodizǎm) [masculine] (Bulgarian), metodisme [masculine] (Catalan), 循道宗 (xúndàozōng) (Chinese Mandarin), metodismus [masculine] (Czech), metodisme [common-gender] (Danish), methodisme [neuter] (Dutch), metodismo (Esperanto), metodismi (Finnish), méthodisme [masculine] (French), Methodismus [masculine] (German), μεθοδισμός (methodismós) [masculine] (Greek), metodizmus (Hungarian), metodismo [masculine] (Italian), メソジスト (mesojisuto) (Japanese), 감리교 (gamnigyo) (Korean), методизам (metodizam) [masculine] (Macedonian), metodisme [masculine] (Norwegian), 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)
    Sense id: en-Methodism-en-noun-MaZuQd5U Disambiguation of Methodism: 78 22 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ism Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 55 45 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ism: 54 46 Disambiguation of 'Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley': 97 3
  2. Any of several related movements. Tags: uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-Methodism-en-noun-LTMvsAa6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ism Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 55 45 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ism: 54 46
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: Protestantism

Inflected forms

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