[f. as prec. + -ISM.] The theory of evolution or development.
1869. Huxley, in Sci. Opin., 28 April, 487/1. The three schools of geological speculation which I have termed Catastrophism, Uniformitarianism, and Evolutionism.
1872. E. Fry, in Spectator, 21 Sept., 1201. Evolutionism does not propose to explain the unfolding of life out of dead matter.
1873. Dawson, Earth & Man, xiv. 348. Evolutionism … excluded creation and theism.
