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Definition of Superstition
1. Noun. An irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear.
Definition of Superstition
1. n. An excessive reverence for, or fear of, that which is unknown or mysterious.
Definition of Superstition
1. Noun. A belief, not based on human reason or scientific knowledge, that future events may be influenced by one's behaviour in some magical or mystical way. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Superstition
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Superstition
Literary usage of Superstition
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1840)
"MODERN Superstition. oil, IT is said continually—that the age of miracles is past.
We deny that it is su in any sense which implies this age to differ from ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"But superstition hath been the confusion of many states, and bringeth in a ...
The master of superstition is the people; and in all superstition wise men ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"A curious superstition which is current among the street gamins of Paris and ...
In the Hawaiian Islands the superstition that the Kanaka holds dearest is ..."
4. History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle (1866)
"that, supposing other things equal, the superstition of a nation must always bear
an exact proportion to the extent of its physical knowledge. ..."
5. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"Even the influence of superstition is fluctuating and precarious; ... Under the
reign of superstition, they had much to hope from the ignorance, ..."
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