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Definition of Fakirism
1. religious asceticism in India [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fakirism
Literary usage of Fakirism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life and Work in India: An Account of the Conditions, Methods, Difficulties by Robert Stewart (1896)
"... XIX EVANGELISTIC WORK—V Through Forms and Ceremonies—Apologies—Controversy—Worldly
Influences— Asceticism and fakirism. [NLY a step forward leads us to ..."
2. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"The origin of fakirism, an institution which reaches back to the most remote
antiquity, ... After these models fakirism seems chiefly to have been framed, ..."
3. The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Rev. with by Selim Hobart Peabody, Charles Francis Richardson (1898)
"The origin of fakirism, an institution which reaches back to the most remote
antiquity, ... After these models fakirism seems chiefly to have been framed, ..."
4. TK and the Great Work in America: A Defense of the True and Ancient School by Sylvester A. West (1918)
"fakirism PAST AND PRESENT "The middle ages were not more full
of 'Soothsayers,' 'Astrologers,' 'Adepts,' 'Magicians,' and the like, than is
the present age ..."
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