Mod|ern|ism

mod|ern|ism «MOD uhr nihz uhm», noun.

1. modern attitudes or methods; sympathy with what is modern: »

Modernism entered Japanese poetry with the wave of Western influence which began late in the 19th Century (Atlantic).

2. a tendency in religion to interpret the teachings of the Bible or the church in accordance with modern scientific theories.

3. a modern word, phrase, or usage.

Mod|ern|ism «MOD uhr nihz uhm», noun.

1. a movement among Roman Catholics to modify the teachings and tenets of the Church in the direction of the scientific, literary, and philosophic opinions of the 1800's and 1900's. It was condemned by Pope Pius X in 1907.

2. = modernism (def. 2). (Cf. ↑modernism)