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- noun Plural form of
animist .
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Examples
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Many people, such as animists, think that all objects are imbued with a spiritual essence.
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Census classes as "animists," or nature-worshippers, _i. e._ they still worship trees and stones and the spirits that are supposed to dwell in them.
India, Old and New Valentine Chirol 1890
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Southerners — mainly animists or Christians — were also angered by attempts of the northern dominated government to impose Islamic law.
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Deng, a former child slave who became a national swimming champion in Sudan, is also a champion of human rights, including the rights of his people, the South Sudanese, mostly Christians and animists -- or practitioners of native religions -- who he says have been slaughtered and persecuted in huge numbers since the 1950's.
Heather Robinson: The Original Darfur Heather Robinson 2010
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When confronted with monotheism for the first time, polytheists and animists all over the world frequently reacted if their own accounts are to be believed with: Sure!
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Southerners – mainly animists or Christians – were also angered by attempts of the northern dominated government to impose Islamic law.
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Deng, a former child slave who became a national swimming champion in Sudan, is also a champion of human rights, including the rights of his people, the South Sudanese, mostly Christians and animists -- or practitioners of native religions -- who he says have been slaughtered and persecuted in huge numbers since the 1950's.
Heather Robinson: The Original Darfur Heather Robinson 2010
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Deng, a former child slave who became a national swimming champion in Sudan, is also a champion of human rights, including the rights of his people, the South Sudanese, mostly Christians and animists -- or practitioners of native religions -- who he says have been slaughtered and persecuted in huge numbers since the 1950's.
Heather Robinson: The Original Darfur Heather Robinson 2010
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Deng, a former child slave who became a national swimming champion in Sudan, is also a champion of human rights, including the rights of his people, the South Sudanese, mostly Christians and animists -- or practitioners of native religions -- who he says have been slaughtered and persecuted in huge numbers since the 1950's.
Heather Robinson: The Original Darfur Heather Robinson 2010
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When confronted with monotheism for the first time, polytheists and animists all over the world frequently reacted if their own accounts are to be believed with: Sure!
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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