Methodism

From method +‎ -ism. Fellow students at the University of Oxford called Wesley and his followers "methodists" because they lived and practiced their faith methodically; Wesley adopted the designation.^[1]

Methodism (usually uncountable, plural Methodisms)

1. The Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley in 18th-century England.
   • 2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 15, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:

     Far more Yankees shifted to Methodism, an eighteenth-century splinter from the Anglican Church with an emphasis on effecting social change[.]

2. Any of several related movements.

• Protestantism

• Methodism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia