Meanings
nounShintōist (plural Shintōists)
plural Shintōists
- alternativeAlternative spelling of Shintoist.
It has been said that a Japanese is a Shintōist in life and a Buddhist at death; and it is also true that he may be during life, at one and the same time, a devotee of both.
1913, Ernest Wilson Clement, A Handbook of Modern Japan, page 253
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