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legalism

/lee-guh-liz-uhm/US // ˈli gəˌlɪz əm //UK // (ˈliːɡəˌlɪzəm) //

法制主义,合法主义,法制化,法理主义

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : strict adherence, or the principle of strict adherence, to law or prescription, especially to the letter rather than the spirit.
    • : Theology. the doctrine that salvation is gained through good works.the judging of conduct in terms of adherence to precise laws.
    • : the principles and practices of a school of political theorists advocating strict legal control over all activities, a system of rewards and punishments uniform for all classes, and an absolute monarchy.

Examples

  • Two great intellectual currents came together over the past century to bring America to this state of hyper-legalism.

  • The writer is ill-equipped to estimate the peculiar value of Roman legalism to mankind.

  • With this legalism went a spirit of intense exclusiveness and narrow ecclesiasticism.

  • Is it to a disinterested and even-handed justice, the high legalism of the Golden Rule, which would be the humanist's way?

  • We have, then, the introduction of legalism into the casual affairs of the tropics, and the vanishing of primitive license.

  • (come into being a Pharisaic legalism) Page 140: Changed subconsious to subconscious.