[f. as prec. + -ISM.] a. = LUTHERANISM. b. Something characteristic of Luther, or done or said in imitation of Luther.
a. 1695. Wood, Hist. & Antiq. Univ. Oxf. (Gutch, 1796), II. 29. Lutherism increased daily in the University.
1863. W. C. Dowding, Life & Corr. G. Calixtus, vii. 51. Calixtus, who had hitherto been conversant with Lutherism, found here the headquarters of the German ‘Reformed.’
1882–3. Schaff, Encycl. Relig. Knowl., I. 72. The movement which led the population of Anhalt from Lutherism to Calvinism.
