NOUN
- the religion of most people in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal
- a body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on a caste system; it is characterized by a belief in reincarnation, by a belief in a supreme being of many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a desire for liberation from earthly evils
How To Use Hindooism In A Sentence
- I could not but acknowledge that the local governments had, as it seemed to him, evinced but little sympathy with Hindooism; and that whatever might be European policy in respect to religion, the East India Company might have participated in the desire which prevails in Europe to develop ancient customs, and the reasons of those customs. Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
- This place bears evidence of having been ruled over by some chief pretending to Hindooism. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
- -- The city here represented is the religious centre of Hindooism, and one of the oldest cities on the globe. Shepp's Photographs of the World
- Hindooism is more fantastic, and less pleasingly endeared to us, than the paganism of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843
- Hindooism says that the moon, Soma, was turned into a female called Chandra -- 'the White or Silvery One.' Moon Lore
- Protestants: and we expect that Hindoos, who believe that the privileges of Hindooism can be forfeited by a merely physical act, will expose theirs to the danger of being made Christians! Representative Government
- Dermot Killingley, however, cites a reference to "Hindooism" by Rammohun Roy in 1816. The Rammohun Roy connection
- The Oxford English Dictionary traces "Hindooism" to an 1829 reference in the Bengalee, Vol 43, and also refers to an 1858 usage by the German Indologist Max Müller. Archive 2008-03-01
