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
- : 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.
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