Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The worship of the powers or agencies of nature; nature-worship.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The worship of the powers or agencies of nature; materialism in religion; nature worship.

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  • noun The worship of the powers or agencies of nature; materialism in religion.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek

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Examples

  • Savages begin with fetisism and demon-worship, they proceed to physiolatry (the religion of the Vedas) and Sabaeism: the deity is the last and highest pinnacle of the spiritual temple, not placed there except by a comparatively civilised race of high development, which leads them to study and speculate upon cosmical and psychical themes.

    First footsteps in East Africa 2003

  • Savages begin with fetisism and demon - worship, they proceed to physiolatry (the religion of the Vedas) and

    First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855

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