(n.) A miraculously given power, as of healing, speaking foreign languages without instruction, etc., attributed to some of the early Christians.
Example Sentences:
(1) All persons who serve the Lord through their work in a health care facility should be considered healers and need to be made aware of the special charisms in healing.
(2) • On women: "We must go further in the explicitness of the role and charism of women living in the church."
(3) Especially meaningful may be a ceremoney in which individuals are anointed with oil to dedicate them to the charisms of their particular tasks.
(4) Speaking for the first time as pope on the issue of women's ordination, Francis said that although that particular door was "closed", the church should find ways to boost women's "role and charism [divinely bestowed gifts]".
Chartism
Definition:
(n.) The principles of a political party in England (1838-48), which contended for universal suffrage, the vote by ballot, annual parliaments, equal electoral districts, and other radical reforms, as set forth in a document called the People's Charter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Best known for his trilogy on 19th-century social history, Victorian People (1954), Victorian Cities (1963) and Victorian Things (1988), Briggs also wrote a penetrating short essay on Chartism (1959) that has stood the test of time, plus studies of Karl Marx in London and a company history of Marks and Spencer.