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pandaemonism

pandaemonism is the alternative spelling of pandemonism.

Meaning of pandemonism

Noun

pandemonism (uncountable)

  1. Belief that every object (animate or inanimate), idea (abstract or concrete), and action is inhabited by its own independent supernatural spirit; worship of such spirits.
    • At all events, it is interesting to learn, from this work, with greater accuracy, an old religious system of the East, in which are to he found, with Pandemonism and the metempsychosis, the elements of the worship of the stars, of astrology, the theurgy, the doctrine of amulets, as well as the...1833, Charles Buck, A Theological Dictionary: Containing Definitions of All Religious and Ecclesiastical Terms, page 291
  2. Belief in a universe that is infused with an evil spirit.
    • It was but the original faith of the ancient ancient Teutons which the Christian monks had perverted into pandemonism.1927, Lewis Browne, Elsa Weihl, That Man Heine: A Biography, page 257

Questions about pandaemonism

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Pandaemonism is the alternative spelling of pandemonism.

Words near pandaemonism in the dictionary

  1. panda hugger
  2. panda huggers
  3. Pandacan
  4. Pandacaqui
  5. pandaedalian
  6. pandaemonism
  7. pandaemonium
  8. pandaesque
  9. Pandag
  10. Pandaisia
  11. Pandakaki

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