demonolatry

NOUN
  1. the acts or rites of worshiping devils
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How To Use demonolatry In A Sentence

  • I'd just like to say demonolatry is generally separate from Satanism even when it's Satanism in which worship is involved because normally then only one demon is being worshipped.
  • It was pliant and amalgamated easily with local observances, in China with funeral rites, in Tibet with demonolatry. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3
  • [126] It was formerly suggested that the fact of the Mahars being the chief worshippers at the shrines of Sheikh Farid indicated that the places themselves had been previously held sacred, and had been annexed by the Muhammadan priests; and the legend of the giant, who might represent the demonolatry of the aboriginal faith, being slain by the saint might be a parable, so to say, expressing this process. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
  • In pagan times when divining sacrifice was offered it was idolatry, and even now divination is a kind of demonolatry or devil worship (d'Annibale). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
  • The civilian demonolatry and related building is very popular also easy to ignore.
  • The grounds for this counter-claim are that if the judgment is a moral judgment, as I assumed, then demonolatry - the worship of evil spirits - would be self-contradictory.
  • a feeble polytheism -- a kind of demonolatry; for, as good spirits do not injure one, one's whole time is given to the propitiation of the evil. Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska
  • It should be mentioned that even practitioners of demonolatry are misled in their perceptions of the nature of demons.
  • The Burmese are really as devoted to demonolatry as the hill-tribes who are labelled plain spirit-worshippers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
  • The prevailing faith of the Dravidians, therefore, is demonolatry; and the myriad shrines in the villages and hamlets, and the daily rites conducted in them, attest the universal prevalence of this belief and the great place it has in the life of these so-called Hindus. India, Its Life and Thought
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