Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A religion native to Japan, characterized by veneration of nature spirits and ancestors and by a lack of formal dogma.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The system of nature-and hero-worship which forms the indigenous religion of Japan.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of the two great systems of religious belief in Japan. Its essence is ancestor worship, and sacrifice to dead heroes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun Formerly the state
religion ofJapan , a type ofanimism involving theworship of ancestors and nature spirits. - adjective Of, or pertaining to,
Shintoism .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or characteristic of Shintoism
- noun the ancient indigenous religion of Japan lacking formal dogma; characterized by a veneration of nature spirits and of ancestors
- noun the native religion and former ethnic cult of Japan
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"_Shinto_, which means literally 'the way of the Gods,' is the name given to the mythology and vague ancestor-and nature-worship which preceded the introduction of Buddhism into Japan -- Shinto, so often spoken of as a religion, is hardly entitled to that name.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902
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Richard Haag's illicit photograph of the 52nd reconstruction of the main Shinto shrine is not an Ansel Adams, but the admission of a supposed questionable provenance makes it quite personal and rather precious in a way that offering a simple project drawing does not but rather laughable.
Silent Auction 2005
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Richard Haag's illicit photograph of the 52nd reconstruction of the main Shinto shrine is not an Ansel Adams, but the admission of a supposed questionable provenance makes it quite personal and rather precious in a way that offering a simple project drawing does not but rather laughable.
Archive 2005-09-01 2005
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San San Kudo is a Japanese marriage ceremony originating in Shinto wedding services, but is now performed at weddings of all types in countries across Asia and the world.
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The birth of the Shinto as an independent religion has relation with the Confucian concept of dô of the Edo period that “influenced the word Shinto, imbuing it with the meaning of the way, as a political or moral norm” p.
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The game has it's roots in Japanese Shinto religion, but doens't attempt to promote it.
GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features 2009
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The game has it's roots in Japanese Shinto religion, but doens't attempt to promote it.
GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features 2009
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Since it found many of those roots in Shinto, the movement is also referred to as the Shinto revival, or Neo-Shintoism.
1688-1704 2001
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There had been, in very ancient times, a native religion called Shinto, and it had lingered on obscurely.
The Problem of China Bertrand Russell 1921
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But when at last in the ninth and tenth centuries native Japanese Buddhists popularized its doctrines and adopted into its theogony the deities of the aboriginal religion, now known as Shinto, Buddhism became the religion of the people, and filled the land with its great temples, praying priests, and gorgeous rituals.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902
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