Mahometanism

English

Etymology

Mahometan + -ism

Proper noun

Mahometanism

  1. (obsolete or archaic) Alternative form of Mohammedanism
    • 1967, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, New York, W.W. Norton:
      (... in the true style of Mahometanism, [women] are treated as a kind of subordinate beings, and not as a part of the human species, when improveable reason is allowed to be the dignified distinction which raises men above the brute creation, and puts a natural scepter in feeble hand.

References

  • Mahometanism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

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