Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An improper and little-used form of
fetishism .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
fetichism .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
fetishism .
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Examples
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In its empire he had established one sovereign, who was supreme, and that sovereign was Eleanor; his soul had but one idol, and the deity of this feticism was Eleanor; his mind had raised one standard of human perfection, and the motto of that standard, the excelsior of his fate, was Eleanor.
Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter Colin Munro
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In this discussion writers don't seem to understand what is the difference between feticism built in our conventional thinking and the sound right to know and understand the whole Fritzl-incest - story.
New Statesman 2009
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In this discussion writers don't seem to understand what is the difference between feticism built in our conventional thinking and the sound right to know and understand the whole Fritzl-incest - story.
New Statesman 2009
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