Shintoist

English

Alternative forms

• Shintōist

Etymology

From Shinto +‎ -ist.

Noun

Shintoist (plural Shintoists)

1. An adherent of Shinto / Shintoism.
   • 1900, Edward Westermarck, “Remarks on the Predicates of Moral Judgments”, in Mind, volume 9, page 187:

     […] ; and the modern Shintoist concludes that the primæval Japanese were pure and holy from the fact that they are represented as a people who had no moral commandments.

Coordinate terms

• (religionists) religionist; agnostic,‎ Asatruar,‎ atheist,‎ Baháʼí,‎ Buddhist,‎ Christian,‎ deist,‎ Druid,‎ Druze,‎ Eckist,‎ heathen,‎ Hindu,‎ Jain,‎ Jedi,‎ Jew,‎ Mormon,‎ Mormonist,‎ Muslim,‎ Odinist,‎ pagan,‎ Pastafarian,‎ Quaker,‎ Raëlian,‎ Rastafarian,‎ Rodnover,‎ Samaritan,‎ Shintoist,‎ Sikh,‎ Taoist,‎ Unitarian Universalist,‎ Wiccan,‎ Yahwist,‎ Yazidi,‎ Zoroastrian ^{(Category: en:Religion) [edit]}

Translations

adherent of Shinto / Shintoism

• Asturian: xintoísta (ast) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 神道信徒

• Finnish: šintolainen (fi)
• German: Schintoist (de) m, Shintoist m, Schintoistin (de) f, Shintoistin f
• Galician: xintoísta m or f
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: xintoísta (pt) m or f
• Spanish: sintoísta (es) m or f
• Vietnamese: Thần đạo

Adjective

Shintoist

1. Of or pertaining to Shinto / Shintoism.

   Synonym: Shintoistic

   • 1901, Osman Edwards, Japanese Plays and Playfellows, page 245:

     From all accounts he was a hard-working idealist, who spared no pains to make converts, but his ascetic views must seem violently out of harmony with the Shintoist easy-going faith, which has for moral code the single maxim, "Follow your impulses and obey the Emperor."

Translations

of or pertaining to Shinto / Shintoism

• Asturian: xintoísta (ast)
• German: schintoistisch (de), shintoistisch (de)
• Galician: xintoísta
• Portuguese: xintoísta (pt)
• Spanish: sintoísta (es)