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    heckerism
CIDE DICTIONARY
heckerism, n. 
                                            
                                         The teaching of Isaac Thomas Hecker   (1819-88), which interprets Catholicism as promoting human aspirations after liberty and truth, and as the religion best suited to the character and institutions of the American people.                                                                                 [Webster 1913 Suppl.]                                                                                                                    
                                                                                    
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