Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Pertaining to, or involving, fetichism.
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- adjective Dated form of
fetishistic .
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Examples
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You're know there are movies out there that are far more violent than Mel Gibson's the SAWs, the HOSTELs, the Tarantino's..., but still you feel the childish need to call Gibson's appraoch to violence "fetichistic"...
Mel Gibson to Direct Leonardo DiCaprio in Untitled Viking Movie – Collider.com 2009
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The use of blood and the sacrifice of little children, as well as other fetichistic practices, have been charged against some of the secret religious sects of modern Russia.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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Among all the vagaries of the fetichistic school of concealing-colorationists none is more amusing than the belief that the coloration of the adult skimmer is ever, under any conditions, of a concealing quality.
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Amparito held by a fetichistic Catholicism, conditioned by her situation in life, and mixed with a lot of heterodox and contradictory ideas, but she didn't give any thought to that.
Caesar or Nothing P��o Baroja 1914
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There is a smack of the stone ages, of primeval lake-dwellings, about these shelters on the deserted shore; two or three large fetichistic stones stand near their entrance; wickerwork objects of dark meaning strew the ground; a few stakes emerge, hard by, out of the placid and oozy waters.
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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The people are fetichistic, amulet-loving, rather than devout.
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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All kinds of fetichistic sentiments are also met with even in childhood.
The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900
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The fetichistic tendencies of adults are also in many instances directed towards children.
The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900
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In other cases of fetichism which I have had under observation, the abnormal fetichistic tendency went much further back.
The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900
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Masochistic, sadistic, fetichistic excitations of all kinds are met with, and sexual inclination towards animals is by no means rare.
The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900
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