[f. as next + -ISM.] The doctrinal system of the Jansenists.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Jansenism or Jansenianism, the Tenets and Opinion of Cornelius Jansenius late Bishop of Ypres.
1669. Gale (title), True Idea of Jansenisme, both historick and Dogmatick.
1756. Nugent, Gr. Tour, France, IV. 11. Jansenism was thought in great measure suppressed.
1813. Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, Tour La Grande Chartreuse, App. 122. Jansenism may then be said to be in doctrine the calvinism, and in practice the methodism of the Romish church.
