Definition of Animisms

1. Noun. (plural of animism) ¹

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Definition of Animisms

1. animism [n] - See also: animism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Animisms

animators
animatronic
animatronically
animatronics
animats
anime
animes
animesque
animeverse
animeverses
animi
animis
animise
animism
animisms (current term)
animist
animistic
animistically
animists
animize
animose
animoseness
animosities
animosity
animus
animuses
animés
aningre
anion

Literary usage of Animisms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1916)
"Just how these animisms returned into medicine in such crude form through the Oriental-Latin pathways that were prominent in building up Latin culture, ..."

2. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... To the simple animisms of children water lives, sings, laughs, moans, beckons, and often talks in words and phrases of which Bolton collected many. ..."

3. Universal Biography: Containing a Copious Account, Critical and Historical ...by John Lemprière by John Lemprière (1810)
"... his ecclesiastical historians published Amsterdam 1630, Э vols. fol. and at Cambridge 1720, lie edited and improved with valuable notes, animisms ..."

4. The Problem of Logic by William Ralph Boyce Gibson, Augusta Klein (1908)
"It has its root in the protest of the scientific spirit against the anthropomorphisms and animisms of pre-scientific ages (vide Chapter ..."

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