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Meaning of Döllingerism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

Support for Ignaz von Döllinger, a 19th-century German Catholic theologian who rejected papal infallibility.

dated, uncountable

Examples

“It will be only under the pressure of hard necessity that Döllingerism will ever consent to regard itself as a German sect.”
“There is nothing new in Döllingerism. It is the old story, as old as human shame and sin, of the vanity which is a law to itself, and the pride which will not stoop to obey.”
“The Vatican Council, through its definition of the doctrine of Papal Infallibility, had stirred up a muddy undercurrent of heretical and schismatic feeling among certain elements of the intellectuals, and Döllingerism was quite rampant, particularly in university sections.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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