[f. prec. + -ISM. So F. unitarianisme.]
1. Theol. Belief in or affirmation of the unity of God; esp. the tenets, principles, or views of the Unitarians; Unitarian doctrine or beliefs.
1698. F. B., Modest Censure, 22. The Missionary Fathers have not more ways … of gaining Converts in China,… than these men have of winning over people to Unitarianism.
1792. (title) Reasons for Unitarianism; or the Primitive Christian Doctrine … By a Welsh Freeholder.
1815. W. J. Fox, Serm., 39. The success of Unitarianism speaks in its favour.
1874. Huxley, in Sci. & Cult. (1881), 94. That hypothesis respecting the Divine nature which is termed Unitarianism by its friends and Socinianism by its foes.
1876. Gladstone, in Contemp. Rev., June, 17. Considerable changes seem to have taken place in the scheme of Unitarianism.
transf. 1823. Coleridge, Table-t., 1 Jan. The Turks have no church; religion and state are one; hence there is … no mutual support. This is the very essence of their Unitarianism.
2. a. Philos. = MONISM 1. b. Any unitarian or unitary system or theory.
1891–. in recent Dicts.
