n.
Pronunciation: -sh ə - ˌ ni-z ə m
Function: noun
Usage: often cap
Date: 1942
1 : a movement in 20th century American Judaism that advocates a creative adjustment to contemporary conditions through the cultivation of traditions and folkways shared by all Jews
2 : advocacy of post-Civil War reconstruction
– re · con · struc · tion · ist \ -sh( ə -)nist \ adjective or noun often cap