Meanings
- uncountableThe practice or habit of making or revering incantations.
It became mixed with incantationism and magic, no doubt largely pagan in origin.
1950, Inverness Gaelic Society, Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness2 more examples
The main cause of this inexactitude of the verse-meaning and the consequent incoherence of the Vedas appeared to my mind to be due to the so-called grammarism (not grammar), derivationism (not derivation), authenticationism (not authenticity), applicationism (not applicability), sacrificialism, incantationism, historicity and mythism.
1974, Vidyanand Videh, An exposition of the Vedas - Volume 1But after his period, Goryeo's Buddhism had so rapid a tendency of incantationism and formalism that it was degenerated.
2007, Pyŏng-jo Chŏng, History of Korean Buddhism, page 89
Origin
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