medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
The OED seems to prefer "Nicolaitanism" :-)
John Briggs
On 23/01/2012, John Dillon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I usually use 'Nicolaism' rather than 'Nicolaitism'. The former saves a
> couple of keystrokes and has ca. eight times as many hits in Google as does
> the latter. If you do your searching under this apparently far more
> commonly used form you may have better luck finding a credible discussion of
> its etymology or, perhaps more usefully, of what different ancient and
> medieval writers thought its etymology to be. The second paragraph of this
> otherwise largely antiquated-appearing Wikipedia article may help:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaism
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