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exorcism

/ˈɛk.sɔː.sɪ.zəm/US/ˈɛk.sɔɹˌsɪ.zəm/

exorcism noun: the ritual act of driving out evil spirits from persons, places or things that are possessed by them.

Noun

exorcism (countable and uncountable, plural exorcisms)

  1. The ritual act of driving out evil spirits from persons, places or things that are possessed by them.
    • Master Hume, we are therefore prouided: / will her Ladyship behold and heare our Exorcismes?1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
    • But in this part I am going to mention, it lay chiefly in the people deceived, or equally in both; and this was in wearing charms, philtres, exorcisms, amulets, and I know not what preparations, to fortify the body with them against the plague; as if the plague was not the hand of God, but a kind...1722 March, H[enry] F[oe] [pseudonym; Daniel Defoe], A Journal of the Plague Year: […], London: […] E[lizabeth] Nutt […]; J. Roberts […]; A. Dodd […]; and J. Graves […], →OCLC

exorcism meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

exorcism in Hindi

ritual driving out of evil spirits
हाज़िरात hāzirāt, अभिचार abhicār, दावत dāvat, भूतापसारण bhūtāpsāraṇ, भूतशुद्धि bhūtśuddhi, झाड़-फूँक jhāṛ-phū̃k

exorcism in Tamil

பேயை ஓட்டுதல்

exorcism in Urdu

عمل

exorcism in Bengali

exorcism, sorcery
গুণ gun
More languagesFewer languages
exorcism in Kannada
ಭೂತಪ್ರೇತಗಳ ಉಚ್ಚಾಟನೆ, ದೆವ್ವ ಬಿಡಿಸುವಿಕೆ, ಪಿಶಾಚಿಯನ್ನು ಉಚ್ಚಾಟಿಸುವುದು
exorcism in Arabic
رُقْيَة ruqya
exorcism in Indonesian
rukiah, sempulian, usir gaib, eksorsisme

Forms of exorcism

pluralexorcisms

Plural of exorcism: exorcisms

Origin of exorcism

From Old French exorciser, from Late Latin exorcizō, from Ancient Greek ἐξορκίζω (exorkízō, “to ward off, to charge under oath, adjure”), from ἐξ (ex) + ὅρκος (hórkos).

Words formed from exorcism

Questions about exorcism

What does exorcism mean?
Exorcism means the ritual act of driving out evil spirits from persons, places or things that are possessed by them.
What is exorcism in Hindi?
Exorcism in Hindi is हाज़िरात (hāzirāt), अभिचार (abhicār), दावत (dāvat). See Exorcism meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is exorcism?
Exorcism is a noun.
How do you pronounce exorcism?
Exorcism is pronounced /ˈɛk.sɔː.sɪ.zəm/ (UK).
What is the plural of exorcism?
The plural of exorcism is exorcisms.

Words near exorcism in the dictionary

  1. exorcisements
  2. exorciser
  3. exorcisers
  4. exorcises
  5. exorcising
  6. exorcism
  7. exorcismal
  8. exorcisms
  9. exorcisory
  10. exorcist
  11. exorcistate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: exorcism (page history and authors); exorcism (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exorcism (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); গুণ (Bengali) (page history and authors); exorcism (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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