[f. prec. + -ISM.] The principles, purposes and methods of the Fenians.
1866. Spectator, 1 Dec., 1329. The revival of Fenianism is as formidable as its outbreak.
1870. Lowell, Among my Bks., Ser. I. (1873), 131. The … invisible omnipresence of Fenianism.
1880. McCarthy, Own Times, IV. liii. 147. It would be superfluous to say that their deaths did not discourage the spirit of Fenianism. On the contrary, they gave it a new lease of life.
