- a variation of Hindu.
Hindoo
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As he wrote about the 1777 Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, it contained "within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohametan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination."
From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2023
I thought JR Ackerley’s Hindoo Holiday was the most enjoyable book I’d ever read when I discovered it belatedly 10 years ago, and it seems to me even better now.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 5, 2020
Evelyn Waugh called Hindoo Holiday “radiantly delightful” and its accuracy of human perception “intoxicating”.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 5, 2020
In reaction to British diatribes about "Hindoo immorality" a new generation of British-educated Hindu reformers began critically to re-examine their own traditions.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2014
His name is derived from the Hindoo agni, whence come the Latin ignis and the English verb to ignite.
From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by Guerber, H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline)
Besides the Hindoos and the Egyptians, there were many nations more ancient than the Hebrews.
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Westbrook, Richard B.
In another part of the city is the Golden Temple, devoted to the god 270 Shiva, which divides with that of the monkeys the homage of the Hindoos.
From From Egypt to Japan by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
Hindoos, the, art among, 36; their domestic code, 175.
From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James
According to the Pantheism of the Hindoos, all things are a part of God.
From From Egypt to Japan by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
And yet he is of the straitest sect of the Hindoos, who bathes in the Ganges every morning, and "does his pooja."
From From Egypt to Japan by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
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