eradicationism

English

Etymology

From eradication +‎ -ism. Coined around 1900 by people from the circle of Dwight L. Moody.

Noun

eradicationism (uncountable)

  1. The belief that something (often disease or a cultural trait) must be eliminated.
  2. (Protestantism, derogatory) Strict holiness; a radical, Wesleyan holiness teaching that considers that sin is or will be completely eliminated from true believers (originally used only by opponents) [from early 20th c.]
    Antonyms: Keswickism, suppressionism
    • 1901 October, Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, “Biblical Notes and Queries”, in Record of Christian Work, volume 20, page 832:
      The root error of eradicationism of the flesh has room to grow only in the false conception of "flesh," as a mere tendency to evil quite apart from the natural body.

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