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Definition of Sivaism
1. Noun. A Hindu sect worshiping Shiva.
Group relationships: Hindooism, Hinduism
Generic synonyms: Religious Order, Religious Sect, Sect
Member holonyms: Shivaist
Derivative terms: Shivaist
2. Noun. Worship of Shiva one of the 3 chief gods of the Hindu pantheon.
Definition of Sivaism
1. Noun. (alternative form of Shaivism) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sivaism
Literary usage of Sivaism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pioneering in the Far East: And Journeys to California in 1849 and to the by Ludvig Verner Helms (1882)
"A few of them perform penances analogous to the Indian Joga, but not so severe.
Sivaism, upon the whole, is practised here in a much milder form than in ..."
2. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"But pastoral simplicities and an exquisite ritual had no chance against a system
like Sivaism, that pandered to the grossest superstitions of the masses. ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1905)
"Also, Sivaism had its austere aspect; it was ascetic as well as orgiastic; ...
Perhaps, in this instance, Sivaism borrowed from Buddhism ; but the Mahayana ..."
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