[f. JEW sb. + -ISM.]

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  † 1.  The religious system of the Jews; Judaism.

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1579.  J. Stubbes, Gaping Gulf, E iv b. To maintaine therein thopen exercise of Turcisme, arrianisme, iewisme, papisme, anabaptisme, and such monstruous professions.

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1653.  Milton, Hirelings, Wks. (1851), 357. Superstitions fetch’d from Paganism or Jewism.

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1800.  Asiat. Ann. Reg., Hist. India, 5/1. The channels through which Christianity and Jewism were communicated to the nations of the Indian peninsula.

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  2.  An idiom or characteristic of the Jews. rare.

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1841.  Blackw. Mag., L. 617/2. We search in vain for the remotest inkling of Jewism of any kind.

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1884.  L. Gronlund, Coöperat. Commw., ii. 50. ‘Jewism,’ to our mind, best expresses that special curse of our age, Speculation, the transfer of wealth from others to themselves by chicanery without giving an equivalent.

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