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Classism vs Classis - What's the difference?

classism | classis |

As nouns the difference between classism and classis

is that classism is discrimination or prejudice that is based on social class while classis is (obsolete) a class or order; sort; kind.

classism

English

Noun

(-)
  • Discrimination or prejudice that is based on social class.

    • classis

    English

    Noun

    (classes)
  • (obsolete) A class or order; sort; kind.
  • * Clarendon
    • His opinion of that classis of men.
  • (obsolete, religion) An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, such as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church.
  • * 1982 , Keith L. Sprunger, Dutch Puritanism
    • At Utrecht and Breda there was strong pressure from the Dutch Reformed Church to exclude from employment British preachers who refused to take membership in the classis .
    (Webster 1913) ----