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• a variation of Brahmanism.

Brahminism

American  

[brah-muh-niz-uhm] / ˈbrɑ məˌnɪz əm /

noun

1. Brahmanism.

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Other Word Forms

• Brahminist
  noun

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Brahminism

As most of those confined are Hindoos and profess Brahminism, they bathe several times a day, in a large tank filled with excellent water.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

Four great patriarchs are the hypothetical progenitors of the four primary Afghan divisions—though it is uncertain whether any such quaternion be more of an historical reality than the four castes of Brahminism.

From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

Of the active virtues, however, the recognition is as slight as may be; so slight as to make it doubtful whether Buddhism be a better rule for the formation of good citizens than Brahminism.

From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

For long centuries Buddhism and Brahminism flourished side by side, and then slowly Buddhism decayed and Brahminism in a multitude of forms replaced it.

From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Mother-right is still in force in many parts of India, though owing to the influence of Brahminism on the aboriginal tribes the examples of the maternal family are fewer than might be expected.

From The Position of Woman in Primitive Society A Study of the Matriarchy by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

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