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spiritism

American  
[spir-i-tiz-uhm] / ˈspɪr ɪˌtɪz əm /

noun

  1. the doctrine or practices of spiritualism.


spiritism British  
/ ˈspɪrɪˌtɪzəm /

noun

  1. a less common word for spiritualism

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of spiritism

First recorded in 1860–65; spirit + -ism

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He was one of the first celebrities to do spiritism.

From Salon Sep. 17, 2021

The five-mile crescent of Copacabana and the other Rio beaches blazed with the ritual candles of some 600,000 devotees of Brazil's fastest-growing cult: "spiritism."

From Time Magazine Archive

His subject this time, of course, was spiritism.

From Time Magazine Archive

He put spiritism in a class with witchcraft, hysteria and paranoiac illusion, charging spiritualists, as distinct from psychic researchers, with "wishful thinking and logic-blindness."

From Time Magazine Archive

The dogmatism which shuts the door squarely in the face of spiritism is as unreasonable, as unscientific, as the credulity which opens the door wide and accepts everything which comes through.

From Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Atkins, Gaius Glenn

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