maculism means rejection of belief in the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.
Etymology
From maculate + -ism, or a back-formation from immaculism.
noun
- Rejection of belief in the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.“As maculism ceased to be a viable option in Catholic theology, however, theologians who argued that Mary had some debt to Adam, proximate or remote, often adhered to some form of mitigated Thomism or mitigated Scotism […].”