druidism

American  

[droo-i-diz-uhm] / ˈdru ɪˌdɪz əm /

noun

1. the religion or rites of the Druids.

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Etymology

Origin of druidism

First recorded in 1705–15; Druid + -ism

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druidism

Laeghaire Mac Neill—possessed druids and enchanters, who used to foretell through their druidism and through their paganism what was in the future for them.

From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary

Gaul was the head-quarters of druidism; and thither we find the Britons, and even the Romans, sending their children for instruction.

From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack

Bardism, or as it is generally though improperly styled, druidism, was the fount of instruction, moral and religious, in Britain and in Gaul. 

From The Welsh and Their Literature from The London Quarterly Review, January 1861, American Edition by George Henry Borrow

Druidism was the religion of the Celts, and druidism was probably one of the least corrupt forms of paganism.

From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack

These verses were communicated orally, and were never written down whilst bardism or druidism lasted, though the bards and druids at a very early period were acquainted with the use of letters. 

From The Welsh and Their Literature from The London Quarterly Review, January 1861, American Edition by George Henry Borrow

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