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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-ism (focusing on history of the wording, but please note the bias: The article implies falsely that this is an originary British English concept, while actually French used this earlier (E.g. the -ism term “Calvinism” was coined in 1552 by the Gnesio-Lutheran Joachim Westphal, which then spread across Europe for referring to abstract contexts), and even Kant is not mentioned there.)
I think that the article doesn’t imply that the wording -ism is an originary British English concept. It is just an article about wording -ism in English language, so it refers to the origins of that wording only in English. But from the beginning of the article, it is mentioned that the usage of the suffix -isme in French is older:
Ism / -ism (/-ˌɪzəm/) is a suffix in many English words, originally derived from the Ancient Greek suffix -ισμός (-ismós), and reached English through the Latin -ismus, and the French -isme.
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