fetishism
noun
belief in or use of fetishes.
fetichism
-
a variation of
fetishism.
Example Sentences
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In Rome, it is at least probable that fetichism, as in Greece, was partly a survival, partly a new growth from the primal root of human superstitions.
From Custom and Myth New Edition by Andrew Lang
And the fresh stage is evolved in accordance with the law that governs the whole evolution of fetichism.
From An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons
How sedulously this fetichism was inculcated by those who profited from the control of the fetiches is shown by a thousand stories and incidents of the time.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
That, I take it, is the ultimate stage in the evolution, the fine flower, of fetichism.
From An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons
Accepting his statement that fetichism is ubiquitous, we have the most powerful à priori argument that fetichism is primitive.
From Custom and Myth New Edition by Andrew Lang
