Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The belief that the dead communicate with the living; spiritualism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
spiritualism , 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Spiritualsm.
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- noun
spiritualism
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun concern with things of the spirit
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hugo's dabbling in spiritism at the time: Oh! Sefton,
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Study and inquiry should eradicate the superstition and the fraud called spiritism, and people should be protected against a most dangerous and cowardly form of crime -- criminal hypnotism.
Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men John William Harris
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The phenomena of so-called spiritism, while not as yet justifying
Modern Religious Cults and Movements Gaius Glenn Atkins 1912
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“Mr. Arbitage, on the other hand, embraces the idea of spiritism, and of speaking with our dear departed ones on the Other Side.
To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997
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"Then there was the giving heed to seducing spirits _and teachings of demons_ (demonology, called spiritism) '_forbidding to marry_'
The Mark of the Beast Sidney Watson
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"nerve-force," wherein, while admitting that great and good men believed in the phenomena of "spiritism," he concluded that they were overhasty in assigning causes.
The Tyranny of the Dark Hamlin Garland 1900
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But that is no reason that we should immediately account for it by labelling it spiritism.
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While the rest argued pro and con and the air was filled with phrases, — "psychic phenomena," "self-hypnotism," "residuum of unexplained truth," and "spiritism," — she was reviving mentally the girlhood pictures she had conjured of this soldier-father she had never seen.
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She could skin the ordinary kahuna lapaau (medicine man) when it came to praying to Lonopuha and Koleamoku; read dreams and visions and signs and omens and indigestions to beat the band; make the practitioners under the medicine god, Maiola, look like thirty cents; pull off a pule hoe incantation that would make them dizzy; and she claimed to a practice of kahuna hoenoho, which is modern spiritism, second to none.
SHIN-BONES 2010
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Inspiration of this type occurs in spiritism and in other religions, where the prophet writes down divine dictation in ecstasy.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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