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  1. confessionalismnoun

    a belief in the importance of full and unambiguous assent to the whole of a religious teaching.

  2. confessionalismnoun

    a style of American poetry that drew on the personal history of the poet

  3. confessionalismnoun

    (in Lebanon) a system of government that proportionally distributes political and institutional power among religious and ethnic communities.

    Lebanon's confessional system has both helped preserve a modicum of inter-communal stability and contributed to the breakdown of state and society from 1975 to 1990.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Confessionalismnoun

    an exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith

Wikidata

  1. Confessionalism

    Confessionalism is a system of government that refers to de jure mix of religion and politics. It can mean distributing political and institutional power proportionally among religious communities.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of confessionalism in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of confessionalism in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2


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