Byzantinism

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

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

Origin of Byzantinism

1
First recorded in 1850–55; Byzantine + -ism

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