Definitions

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  • noun the worship of places

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Examples

  • Considering the mythology in relation to the stages in development of mythologic philosophy, it appears that the dominant beliefs, such as those pertaining to the sun and the winds, represent a crude physitheism, while vestiges of hecastotheism crop out in the object-worship and place-worship of the leading tribes and in other features.

    The Siouan Indians 1882

  • Poor wretches, their industry is mob-worship, place-worship, parliamentary intrigue, and the multiplex art of tongue-fence: flung into that bad element, there they swim for decades long, throttling and wrestling one another according to their strength, -- and the toughest or luckiest gets to land, and becomes

    Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838

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