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Brahminism

Brahminism is the alternative spelling of Brahmanism.

Meaning of Brahmanism

Proper noun

Brahmanism

  1. The principles and religious practice of the Brahmins, aspects of Hinduism as practiced by the Brahmin caste of India.
  2. Historical Vedic ritualism, contrasted with Shramana traditions.
    • Alongside Brahmanism was the non-Aryan Shramanic culture with its roots going back to prehistoric times.1972, Cromwell Crawford, review of L. M. Joshi, Brahmanism, Buddhism and Hinduism, Philosophy East and West
  3. The conduct or attitudes ascribed to the social or cultural elite within a given society.
    • I am sorry to say that I have found it uphill and exasperating work trying to impose Joyce on such “intellectual” people, or people whose opinion carries weight as I know, in London. … There is a strong body of critical Brahminism, destructive and conservative in temper, which will not have Joyce.July 9, 1919, letter from T.S. Eliot to John Quinn

Questions about Brahminism

What is Brahminism the alternative spelling of?
Brahminism is the alternative spelling of Brahmanism.

Words near Brahminism in the dictionary

  1. brahminical
  2. brahminical thread
  3. brahminical threads
  4. Brahminies
  5. Brahminis
  6. Brahminism
  7. Brahminist
  8. Brahminists
  9. brahminoside
  10. brahmins
  11. Brahminy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Brahminism (page history and authors); Brahmanism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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