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Definition of Cheremiss
1. Noun. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
Group relationships: Russia, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, Soviet Russia
Generic synonyms: Russian
2. Noun. The Finnic language spoken by the Cheremis.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheremiss
Literary usage of Cheremiss
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Folk-lore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend and Law by James George Frazer (1919)
"Cheremiss story of the creation of man. African stories of the creation of man.
... The Cheremiss of Russia, a Finnish people, tell a story of the creation ..."
2. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"The whole ceremony, observes the writer who has described it, looks almost like
a caricature of the Eucharist.2 According to another account, each Cheremiss ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... the Finns, Lapps and Cheremiss. There arc abo clan gods worshipped by each
clan with special ceremonies. Traces of ancestor-worship are also found. ..."
4. The Races of Man: An Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography by Joseph Deniker (1900)
"... the middle basin of the Volga, as far as about the soth degree of north
latitude, we find the southern group of the Ugrians composed of Cheremiss (Fig. ..."
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