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-Ism
Webster's Dictionary
A suffix indicating an act, a process, the result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idiom, etc.); as, baptism, galvanism, organism, hypnotism, socialism, sensualism, Anglicism.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for '-Ism'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/-/-ism.html. 1828.