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拘泥形式,形式主义,虚礼

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Formalism \Form"al*ism\, n.
   The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or
   dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion.

         Official formalism.                      --Sir H.
                                                  Rawlinson.

资料来源 : WordNet®

formalism
     n 1: the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is
          what should be represented [ant: {imitation}]
     2: (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical
        or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its
        symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form
        that has useful applications
     3: the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or
        external forms