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Universalism

Definition: Universalism

Universalism

Noun

1. The theological doctrine that all people will eventually be saved.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "universalism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references)

Etymology: Universalism \U`ni*ver"sal*ism\, noun. [Compare to the French expression universalisme.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: Universalism

English words defined with "universalism": Universalian, universalist, universalistic. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Universalism

DomainTitle

Books

  • Ethical Relativism and Universalism (reference)

  • Freethinking Mystics with Hands: Exploring the Heart of Unitarian Universalism (reference)

  • International Law and the Possibility of a Just World Order.An Essay on Hegel's Universalism.(Value Inquiry Book Series 78) (reference)

  • Universalism vs. Communitarianism: Contemporary Debates in Ethics (reference)

  • With Purpose and Principle: Essays about the Seven Principles of Unitarian Universalism (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Universalism

"Universalism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Universalism" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3261,292

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Universalism

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

unitarian universalism

138

universalism

57

christian universalism

11

soft universalism

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Universalism

Language Translations for "universalism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Farsi 

  

کلیت (Totality, Universality, Universalization), عام گراءی (Universality), جامعیت (Universality). (various references)

   

French

  

universalisme. (various references)

   

German

  

Universalismus. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iversalismunay

   

Russian 

  

универсальность (universality, versatility). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tüm insanların affedileceği doktrini. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Universalism

Derivations

Words beginning with "universalism": universalisms. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Universalism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: universalise, universalisme. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Universalism"

Words rhyming with "universalism" (pronounced 'U`ni*ver"sal*ism'): Abolitionism, Absenteeism, Absinthism, Absolutism, Academicism, Academism, Accidentalism, Achromatism, Acosmism, Acrobatism, Acrotism, Actinism, Adiaphorism, AEstheticism, Africanism, Agnosticism, Agonism, Agrarianism, Agriculturism, Albinism, Albinoism, Alcoholism, Alienism, Allodialism, Allomerism, Allomorphism, Allotheism, Alphabetism, Altruism, Amateurism, Americanism, Amorphism, Anabaptism, Anachorism, Anachronism, Anacrotism, Anagrammatism, Analogism, Anamorphism, Anarchism, Anathematism, Anatocism, Anatomism, Anchoretism, Andabatism, Aneurism, Anglicanism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Anglo-Saxonism. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Universalism

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-l-m-n-r-s-s-u-v"

-2 letters: insularism, luminaires, luminaries, universals.

-3 letters: alienisms, aneurisms, luminaire, mislearns, misvalues, semilunar, serialism, universal, urinemias, visualise.

-4 letters: airiness, airlines, alienism, alumines, aneurism, animuses, anuresis, insulars, inulases, liminess, marlines, mensural, minerals, minivers, miriness, misavers, mislearn, mislives, misraise, misrules, misvalue, numerals, rainless, ramilies, ravelins, realisms, revisals, riminess, seminars, senarius, simulars, slimsier, surnames, surveils, unravels, uranisms, urinemia.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-l-m-n-r-s-s-u-v"
 

+1 letter: universalisms.

 

+4 letters: overstimulations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Universalism


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 69 76 65 72 73 61 6C 69 73 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    ..    ...-    .    .-.    ...    .-    .-..    ..    ...    --

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01101001 01110110 01100101 01110010 01110011 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110011 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#105 &#118 &#101 &#114 &#115 &#97 &#108 &#105 &#115 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0069 0076 0065 0072 0073 0061 006C 0069 0073 006D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

558075887184856778758579

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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