Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The worship of ghosts or spirits; belief in the survival of a conscious spirit after the death of the body, and acts of propitiation to appease it: one of the most wide-spread and persistent of primitive cults.
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Examples
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Animistic conceptions may enter into the worship of ancestors and heroes; but other ideas are so essential that they cannot be regarded merely as modifications of soul-worship.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Indians and the Persians; in the study of soul-worship among the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Again, soul-worship and ancestor-worship are not identical, and with many tribes much attention is paid to conciliating the souls of the dead where ancestor-worship is unknown.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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She was quite aware of it, with her intense soul-worship of all beautiful things.
Halcyone Elinor Glyn 1903
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