infernalism

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Belief in the existence of hell, especially as a place of eternal and conscious torment after death. countable,uncountable
    — To these conceptions Protestant churches will gradually yield, and while still nominally the same in their faith, its infernalism will disappear, and the idea of future punishment will become a rational instead of a diabolical picture of Divine justice.
  2. Hellishness. countable,dated,uncountable
    — It is because worship has been slavishly bestowed on the personification of the worst of the human qualities magnified to infernalism, that it has been considered a degrading, or at least a pusilanimous thing […]
  3. An infernal thing or act. countable,dated,uncountable
    — Is not the State an infernal institution? Why expect from it, then, anything but infernalisms?

词形变化

infernalisms plural

词汇关系

相关词
infernalist

词源

From infernal + -ism. First attested in 1795, popularised in the theological sense in the 2000s–10s.
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