Also 7 familyism. [f. L. famil-ia FAMILY + -ISM.]
1. The doctrine and practice of the Familists.
1642. Canne, in J. Ball, Answ., I. 112. It is familisme for him to say … I will have in my selfe a secret meaning from the rest.
1648. Protest of Ministers, in Miall, Congregationalism Yorks. (1868), 49. We are resolved … never to consent to the toleration of … Familyism … or any other heresies.
a. 1716. South, Serm. (1717), V. 148. The Devil found it requisite … to set up his Standard in Familism or Enthusiasm.
1765. T. Hutchinson, Hist. Mass. Bay, I. 117. His [Samuel Gorton’s] principles were the very dregs of familism.
2. In Fourier’s socialistic philosophy: The feeling existing between members of a family; fraternity.
1848. Tait’s Mag., XV. 705. The propensity to group embraces love, friendship, ambition, and a fourth passion called familism.
