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Shintoism
Variant of Shinto
noun
a principal religion of Japan, with emphasis upon the worship of nature and of ancestors and ancient heroes and upon the divinity of the emperor: prior to 1945, the state religion
Related Forms:
- Shintoism noun
- Shintoist noun, adjective
- Shintoistic adjective
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