Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
paganism .
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Examples
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Unfortunately it seems to me that we are moving towards the failed paganisms of the past as our solutions to the failings of things our great-grandparents told us must fail and why....
The Volokh Conspiracy » Putting Heidegger in the library’s grave of discarded lies
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There were feminine elements/deities to the Mediterranean and Sumerian paganisms (Isis/Ishtar) but matriarchy, if it had ever existed (opinions vary), was extirpated long before Abraham came onto the scene.
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Is it not interesting thus to discover the true note of Catholicism in the most ancient paganisms, and to find that the moon, which for us is incarnate in the blessed Virgin Mary, was for the Syrians and Greeks respectively personified in the virgin
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The paganisms which still exist in the East are rapidly yielding to the march of western intelligence.
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Rousseau, would not intrude upon the picture with his faun-like paganisms and magnificently shameless "Confessions."
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Plainly we should be thinking that music has a purifying, ennobling, and substantial effect upon society, if only Gluck's friend and partisan, the successful composer and immortal writer, Jean Jacques Rousseau, would not intrude upon the picture with his faun-like paganisms and magnificently shameless “Confessions.”
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The Christian idea made haste slowly, and at the start it was weighed down with many paganisms.
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Animism, it is for the very purpose of illustrating our contention that the underlying paganisms of the Japanese archipelago, unwritten and unformulated, are older than the religions founded on books; and that these paganisms, still vital and persistent, constantly modify and corrupt the recognized religious.
The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
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But all the paganisms of the East at this day attest its accuracy, from the more elaborate idolatry of India and the simpler and more stupid idolatry of China down to the childish rudiments of nature worship prevalent among the savage tribes.
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The successive paganisms of the world have been overruled as steps in the world's progress.
Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
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