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fire worship

fire worship is the alternative form of fire-worship.

Meaning of fire-worship

Noun

fire-worship (uncountable)

  1. The worship of fire or of a fire god or goddess.
    • They pour no milky draughts, they heat no cauldron. They give no gifts to the Brāhmana.... Their worship was but enchantment, sorcery, unlike the sacred law of fire-worship, wiles and magic.2001 -, Edwin Bryant, The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture, →ISBN

Questions about fire worship

What is fire worship the alternative form of?
Fire worship is the alternative form of fire-worship.

Words near fire worship in the dictionary

  1. fire warden
  2. fire watch
  3. fire watches
  4. fire whirl
  5. fire whirls
  6. fire worship
  7. fire-bath
  8. fire-baths
  9. fire-bellied
  10. fire-bellied newt
  11. fire-bellied newts

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