aberglaube

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noun

superstition

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Meanings

noun
  1. raresuperstition

    Or, to put it otherwise yet once again: if truth and fidelity are the religion of the critic, the incidental creations of his glowing mind are his aberglaube — his “extra-belief”; and it has been known for these products of critical enthusiasm to exceed in value the texts in which they germinated.

    1880, Proceedings, volume 34, Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, page 8

Origin

From German Aberglaube.

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