Definition of Sivaism

1. Noun. A Hindu sect worshiping Shiva.

Exact synonyms: Shivaism
Group relationships: Hindooism, Hinduism
Generic synonyms: Religious Order, Religious Sect, Sect
Member holonyms: Shivaist
Derivative terms: Shivaist

2. Noun. Worship of Shiva one of the 3 chief gods of the Hindu pantheon.
Exact synonyms: Shivaism
Generic synonyms: Hindooism, Hinduism
Derivative terms: Shivaist

Definition of Sivaism

1. Noun. (alternative form of Shaivism) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sivaism

Sitsang
Sitta
Sitta canadensis
Sitta carolinensis
Sitta europaea
Sittidae
Sitting Bull
Sitwell
Sitwellian
Sitzfleisch
Sium
Sium latifolium
Sium sisarum
Sium suave
Siva
Sivaism
Sivaist
Sivaists
Sivaite
Sivaites
Sivan
Sivapithecus
Siwan
Six-Day War
Six Counties
Six Day War
Six Nations
Sixsmith
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire
Sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale

Literary usage of Sivaism

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

1. Pioneering in the Far East: And Journeys to California in 1849 and to the by Ludvig Verner Helms (1882)
"A few of them perform penances analogous to the Indian Joga, but not so severe. sivaism, upon the whole, is practised here in a much milder form than in ..."

2. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"But pastoral simplicities and an exquisite ritual had no chance against a system like sivaism, that pandered to the grossest superstitions of the masses. ..."

3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1905)
"Also, sivaism had its austere aspect; it was ascetic as well as orgiastic; ... Perhaps, in this instance, sivaism borrowed from Buddhism ; but the Mahayana ..."

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