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incantationism en · NOUN

Etymology

From incantation + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The practice or habit of making or revering incantations.
    • It became mixed with incantationism and magic, no doubt largely pagan in origin. 1950, Inverness Gaelic Society, Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness:
    • But after his period, Goryeo's Buddhism had so rapid a tendency of incantationism and formalism that it was degenerated. 2007, Pyŏng-jo Chŏng, History of Korean Buddhism, page 89:
    • The main cause of this inexactitude of the verse-meaning and the consequent incoherence of the Vedas appeared to my mind to be due to the so-called grammarism (not grammar), derivationism (not derivation), authenticationism (not authenticity), applicationism (not applicability), sacrificialism, incantationism, historicity and mythism. 1974, Vidyanand Videh, An exposition of the Vedas - Volume 1:

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