incantationism
English edit
Etymology edit
incantation + -ism
Noun edit
incantationism (uncountable)
- The practice or habit of making or revering incantations.
- 1950, Inverness Gaelic Society, Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness:
- It became mixed with incantationism and magic, no doubt largely pagan in origin.
- 1974, Vidyanand Videh, An exposition of the Vedas - Volume 1:
- 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.
- 2007, Pyŏng-jo Chŏng, History of Korean Buddhism, page 89:
- But after his period, Goryeo's Buddhism had so rapid a tendency of incantationism and formalism that it was degenerated.