Hist. [f. as next + -ISM.]
1. The doctrine or tenets of the Utraquists.
1861. Ld. Acton, Lett. (1906), 186. In Bohemia Utraquism was the national faith.
1892. Athenæum, 2 Jan., 10/1. from the dawn of Utraquism to its eclipse … in the disaster of the White Mountain in 1620.
2. The use or employment of two languages on an equal footing. rare–1.
1897. Speaker, 10 April, 392/2. The [Austrian] concession … [sc. of officially recognising Czech] is spoken of as sanctioning ‘the utraquism of German and Czech.’
