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Definition of Shintoism
1. Noun. The ancient indigenous religion of Japan lacking formal dogma; characterized by a veneration of nature spirits and of ancestors.
Generic synonyms: Faith, Religion, Religious Belief
Derivative terms: Shintoist, Shintoistic
Definition of Shintoism
1. Proper noun. The Shinto religion of Japan. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shintoism
Literary usage of Shintoism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Error's Chains: How Forged and Broken. A Complete, Graphic, and Comparative by Frank Stockton Dobbins, Samuel Wells Williams, Isaac Hollister Hall (1883)
"As regards the beliefs of the ancient religion, shintoism, it taught primarily the
... The religions of this people are two, shintoism and Buddhism. ..."
2. The World's Parliament of Religions: An Illustrated and Popular Story of the by John Henry Barrows (1893)
"I will therefore trace the rise of the name and the growth of shintoism, and
state the primitive faith. t. The name of Shinto.—Though Shinto occurs a few ..."
3. Story of China and Japan: Embracing Their Geographical Positions, Enormous by James Hyde Clark (1894)
"shintoism. In its pure form, shintoism has no ethical or doctrinal code, ...
After the restoration the government attempted to free shintoism from the ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"SHINTO, or shintoism (Sinico-Jap. shinto, Jap. Kami-no-michi, the way of the Kami (in
... The bows were bluff and the stern hardly less во, shintoism ..."
5. The Religions of Eastern Asia by Horace Grant Underwood (1910)
"LECTURE II shintoism IN our last lecture we considered Taoism, ... In this it is
our purpose to study shintoism >> sometimes translated the " Way of the ..."
6. The Voyage of the Vega Round Asia and Europe: With a Historical Review of by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1885)
"... the Legend of its Origin—Dredging there—Japanese Dancing- Girls—Kioto—The
Imperial Palace—Temples—Swords and Sword- bearers—shintoism and Buddhism — The ..."
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