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Definition of Fetishistic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fetishistic
Literary usage of Fetishistic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General View of Chinese Civilization and of the Relations of the West with by Pierre Laffitte (1887)
"are fetishistic proclivities, and furnish very clear proof of our deep-seated
... I may add that the fetishistic conception of the Sky has not been confined ..."
2. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"On the fetishistic level is the regard for objects themselves as sacred and
powerful, having the nature of charms or talismans. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Mussulman chiefs and instructors are often appointed for the fetishistic population.
Powerful English Protestant missions have unsuccessfully endeavoured to ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The fetishistic theory was developed into a formal system by F. Schultze in Der
... At the same time, cruder fetishistic views and usages are found in ..."
5. The Early Religion of Israel as Set Forth by Biblical Writers and by Modern by James Robertson (1893)
"2 Here it would seem to be implied that the lower animistic and fetishistic
elements were found by Israel on their entrance into Canaan, and taken into the ..."
6. God, the Invisible King by Herbert George Wells (1917)
"Ordinary everyday Christianity is saturated with this fetishistic conception of
God. It may be disowned in The Hibbert Journal, ..."
7. Religion and Culture: A Critical Survey of Methods of Approach to Religious by Frederick Schleiter (1919)
"... a progressive "de-anthropomorphization" and Comte supposed that the evolution
of society involves the continuous elimination of "fetishistic" elements. ..."
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