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  • noun Plural form of animist.

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Examples

  • Many people, such as animists, think that all objects are imbued with a spiritual essence.

    Artificial or Natural 2008

  • Census classes as "animists," or nature-worshippers, _i. e._ they still worship trees and stones and the spirits that are supposed to dwell in them.

    India, Old and New Valentine Chirol 1890

  • Southerners — mainly animists or Christians — were also angered by attempts of the northern dominated government to impose Islamic law.

    Turnout in Southern Sudan vote passes 60 percent 2011

  • Deng, a former child slave who became a national swimming champion in Sudan, is also a champion of human rights, including the rights of his people, the South Sudanese, mostly Christians and animists -- or practitioners of native religions -- who he says have been slaughtered and persecuted in huge numbers since the 1950's.

    Heather Robinson: The Original Darfur Heather Robinson 2010

  • When confronted with monotheism for the first time, polytheists and animists all over the world frequently reacted if their own accounts are to be believed with: Sure!

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • Southerners – mainly animists or Christians – were also angered by attempts of the northern dominated government to impose Islamic law.

    Southern Sudan Vote Reaches Crucial Tipping Point AP 2011

  • Deng, a former child slave who became a national swimming champion in Sudan, is also a champion of human rights, including the rights of his people, the South Sudanese, mostly Christians and animists -- or practitioners of native religions -- who he says have been slaughtered and persecuted in huge numbers since the 1950's.

    Heather Robinson: The Original Darfur Heather Robinson 2010

  • Deng, a former child slave who became a national swimming champion in Sudan, is also a champion of human rights, including the rights of his people, the South Sudanese, mostly Christians and animists -- or practitioners of native religions -- who he says have been slaughtered and persecuted in huge numbers since the 1950's.

    Heather Robinson: The Original Darfur Heather Robinson 2010

  • Deng, a former child slave who became a national swimming champion in Sudan, is also a champion of human rights, including the rights of his people, the South Sudanese, mostly Christians and animists -- or practitioners of native religions -- who he says have been slaughtered and persecuted in huge numbers since the 1950's.

    Heather Robinson: The Original Darfur Heather Robinson 2010

  • When confronted with monotheism for the first time, polytheists and animists all over the world frequently reacted if their own accounts are to be believed with: Sure!

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

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