Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The practice and doctrines of voodoo.
- noun The practice of sorcery or witchcraft.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The voodoo superstitions and practices.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A degraded form of superstition and sorcery, said to include human sacrifices and cannibalism in some of its rites. It is prevalent among the negroes of Haiti, and to some extent in the United States, and is regarded as a relic of African barbarism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable A
religious cult , fromHaiti , involvingwitchcraft andsorcery . - noun countable Any
voodoo practice.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities
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Examples
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This voodooism which they clearly wanted to portray was more of the story line than anything else in this plot.
Sound Off: Disney's Princess and the Frog - Your Thoughts? « FirstShowing.net 2009
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No, I refer to the sizable minority who have perverted voodooism and are now engaged in a unholy war against the deceased-deficient.
Idle Hands Don Lewis 2008
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However, the next day, I sat Monk down at the computer and read a few entries about voodooism to him, specifically focusing on articles like this one that explain how people in our culture tend to denigrate the practice of voodoo, and the possible reasons why:
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: And the water rolls down the drain... 2005
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If he thought "the Viennese quack" and "Freudian voodooism" were so useless and banal, why couldn't he stay off the subject, or the subtext?
Hurricane Lolita 2005
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If he thought "the Viennese quack" and "Freudian voodooism" were so useless and banal, why couldn't he stay off the subject, or the subtext?
Hurricane Lolita 2005
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However, the next day, I sat Monk down at the computer and read a few entries about voodooism to him, specifically focusing on articles like this one that explain how people in our culture tend to denigrate the practice of voodoo, and the possible reasons why:
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: July 2005 Archives 2005
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It isn't true, for example, for voodooism, or the belief that the earth is flat, or Humean skepticism, or philosophical naturalism.
Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000
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He challenged the church to embark on programmes aimed at saving the masses from falling into an "abyss of witchcraft and voodooism".
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With "Frank's Place," they used that same kind of theme -- spirituality, voodooism -- but they did it in such a way that there was respect for the culture.
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I remember particularly there was a program that had to do with voodooism and the whole thing of spirituality.
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