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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ During the police questioning on the first day, some of the parents were asked about Satan and satanism . ▪ In a later chapter I refer to the modern notions of witchcraft and satanism which receive such wide publicity today. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative case form of Satanism English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Satanism \Sa"tan*ism\, n. The evil and malicious disposition of Satan; a diabolical spirit. [R.] Worship of satan.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Satanism is a group of ideological and philosophical beliefs based on the character of Satan . Although the public practice of Satanism began with the founding of the Church of Satan in 1966, historical precedents exist: a group called the Ophite Cultus ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "satanic disposition," from Satan + -ism . Applied 1820s-30s to the poetry of Byron, etc. Meaning "worship of Satan" dates from 1895, with reference to France, where it was said to be active at that time.
Usage examples of satanism.
Conrad of Marburg, bidding him proceed against the Luciferians, who were overtly given over to Satanism.
Damien Echols blows through the trailer parks and flatlands around this Delta town like a brisk winter wind, chilling listeners with tales of vampires, Satanism and ritual murder.
For many who learned of it, the leap from the murders to satanism was not much of a leap at all.
By the very next day, May 8, the sense that the murders might be linked to satanism was gaining strength within the department.
An occultist was someone who believed in the rituals and supernatural powers of various "occult sciences"--including, but not limited to, astrology, palmistry, black magic, white magic, demonolatry, and Satanism.
As a science fiction writer, your abnormal interest--as verified by library records--in Satanism, ESP and home-brewed beer can be considered morally questionable to the point of possibly being criminal in intent.
Sir Robert's interest in Satanism and the occult shortly before his death was only the final nail in the coffin.
The mailman's dance was spontaneous and celebratory and could very well have had something to do with witchcraft or satanism, but he had an intuitive feeling that the dance was related to something much worse, something much more primal and unfathomable, something he did not and perhaps could not understand.
I mean, just because the Masons choose to practice their rites in private, that's no reason to assume they're dabbling in Satanism.
Whatever the originsand I myself refuse to dignify these perversions by the name of religionas satanism exists today it is evil, pure and simple.