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Definition of Fetishistically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fetishistically
Literary usage of Fetishistically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"And within a generation the Bible has been fetishistically employed in Scotland
by laying it on the doorstep to keep out witches. GEO. W. GILMORE. ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1896)
"... marks or features of the living animal, as conventionally conceived, had been
painted, doubtless to make it fetishistically "alive and potent " again. ..."
3. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japanby Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1839)
"... really signifies", the sky, regarded fetishistically as a living thing, and
not used metaphorically, as we sometimes use Heaven as a synonym for God. ..."
4. Nervous and mental disease monograph series (1920)
"The pallor, shroud, and especially coffin are often focused on fetishistically,
the latter being a strange bed. The friends are silent and tearful, ..."
5. The Technique of Psychoanalysis by Smith Ely Jelliffe (1918)
"The pallor, shroud, and especially coffin are often focused on fetishistically,
the latter being a strange bed. The friends are silent and tearful ..."
6. Jiujutsu: The Old Samurai Art of Fighting Without Weaponsby Lindsay, Thomas, Jigorō Kanō by Lindsay, Thomas, Jigorō Kanō (1889)
"... Tien really signifies the sky, regarded fetishistically as a living thing,
and not used metaphorically, as we sometimes use Heaven as a synonym for God. ..."
7. Physiological and Medical Observations Among the Indians of Southwestern by Aleš Hrdlička (1908)
"... but most of these seem to be employed fetishistically or from some fancied
resemblance to the disease, or the diseased organ. ..."
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