[f. prec. adj. + -ISM.]
1. The system of Antichrist.
1588. Marprel. Epist. (1843), 22. The former poynt of Antichristianisme.
1659. Milton, Civ. Power, Wks. 1851, 308. No less antichrist in this main point of antichristianism, no less a pope or popedom then he at Rome.
1701. R. Fleming, Rise & F. Papacy (1844), 36. When the reign of Antichristianism or the Papacy, began.
1849. W. Fitzgerald, trans. Whitaker’s Disp., 2. That … baneful and tedious night of popish superstition and antichristianism.
2. The quality of being opposed to Christianity; an antichristian act or belief.
1590. J. Greenwood, Answ. Gifford, 35. That the Church may professe Christianisme and Antichristianisme, both at a tyme.
1659. Hardy, 1 John (1865), xlvii. 302/2. Yea, which is the worst kind of antichristianism, Pseudochristianism is the brand of our times.
1717. De Foe, Mem. Ch. Scot. (1844), 5. Charg’d with so many Heresies, Errors, Schisms, and Antichristianisms.
1883. F. Cook, in Word & Wk., 7 June, 371/2. Corrupt Christendom possesses a large amount of the spirit of Antichristianism.
