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spiritualism

/spir-i-choo-uh-liz-uhm/US // ˈspɪr ɪ tʃu əˌlɪz əm //UK // (ˈspɪrɪtjʊəˌlɪzəm) //

灵性主义,精神主义,灵修,灵修主义

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the belief or doctrine that the spirits of the dead, surviving after the mortal life, can and do communicate with the living, especially through a person particularly susceptible to their influence.
    • : the practices or phenomena associated with this belief.
    • : the belief that all reality is spiritual.
    • : Metaphysics. any of various doctrines maintaining that the ultimate reality is spirit or mind.
    • : spiritual quality or tendency.
    • : insistence on the spiritual side of things, as in philosophy or religion.

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Examples

  • That’s why they’re marrying spiritualism with practical steps.

  • She rejected vaccination and vivisection and moved toward spiritualism.

  • He is deeply rooted in a heartfelt and learned cosmopolitan spiritualism.

  • Nevertheless, the triumph of West Coast spiritualism over East Coast secularism has civilization-wide implications.

  • All three were anxious," Gray writes, "that the rise of Spiritualism would block the advance of scientific materialism.

  • The miracles are believed in by many, but Spiritualism lags far behind the Mormon theology, and probably always will do.

  • That which goes by the names of clairvoyance and spiritualism is based solely upon an unreasoning credulity.

  • After a time clairvoyance was replaced by spiritualism, and I was again challenged to test the virtue of mediums.

  • Such a culmination has been attained by the believers in Modern Spiritualism.

  • The fact that I do so shows, at all events, that I have looked seriously at spiritualism since.