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Definition of Cultism
1. Noun. Devotion to the doctrine or a cult or to the practices of a cult.
2. Noun. Religious zeal; the willingness to serve God.
Generic synonyms: Worship
Specialized synonyms: Bible-worship, Bibliolatry, Grammatolatry, Verbolatry, Word-worship, Symbol-worship, Symbolatry, Symbololatry, Anthropolatry, Worship Of Man, Gynaeolatry, Gyneolatry, Woman-worship, Lordolatry, Miracle-worship, Thaumatolatry, Place-worship, Topolatry
Derivative terms: Devote, Idolatrous
Definition of Cultism
1. Noun. The system or practice of a cult. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cultism
1. devotion to a cult [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cultism
Literary usage of Cultism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Brunetière's Essays in French Literature by Ferdinand Brunetière (1898)
"Euphuism, or cultism, or whatever name it is called, is a malady of language,
which can sometimes extend to the thought, but does not always do so; which, ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"The cultism of Gongora, the artifice of which lies solely in the choice and
arrangement of words. ..."
3. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1904)
"... but Hlt"oc- one who seldom goes wrong in speaking of friend cultism" or foe,
unless under the plain influence of a prejudice which here had not the ..."
4. 1967! by Ann Owen, Lawrence A. Murray (1994)
"VIII-C] CULTS cultism was spread by the Hippies and their Beatle friends along
with The Maharishi Mahesh-Yogi [the Beatle visit in 1967 was Eastern ..."
5. Main Currents of Spanish Literature by Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford (1919)
"No sooner had Spanish poetry of the Golden Age reached the heights of sublimity
than there was woven about it the blighting spell of cultism, a movement of ..."
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