Also -eism. [f. as prec. + -ISM.]
1. Something characteristic of Voltaire.
1776. Mickle, trans. Camoens’ Lusiad, Introd. p. cxxvi. The error confessed, and still retained, is a true Voltairism.
2. The body of opinions or views expressed by Voltaire; the mocking and sceptical attitude characteristic of these.
1840. Carlyle, Heroes, i. (1904), 14. Truly, if Christianity be the highest instance of Hero-worship, then we may find here in Voltaireism one of the lowest!
1872. Morley, Voltaire (1886), 1. We may think of Voltairism in France, somewhat as we think of Catholicism or the Renaissance or Calvinism.
