Byzantinism

[ biz-uhn-tee-niz-uhm, -tahy-, bahy-zuhn-, bih-zan-tuh- ]

noun

, Eastern Church.

1. caesaropapism, especially before the Great Schism of 1054.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Byzantinism¹

First recorded in 1850–55; Byzantine + -ism

Example Sentences

Vorwärts, the leading Social Democratic daily, said that Social Democrats have nothing to do with such a display of "Byzantinism."

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The r�le of English Justinian would have perfectly suited him, and there are distinct traces of the civilian’s Byzantinism in the doings of the Church of England’s supreme head.

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The three together make up the thing which has received the name of Byzantinism.

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Ecclesiastical Byzantinism is therefore not a product of the middle ages: it is the outcome of the development of the eastern half of the empire from the time of Constantine the Great.

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Yet local art in Venice was no outcome of Byzantinism.

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