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Brahminism

Definitions: Brahminism

Brahminism

Noun

1. The religious and social system of orthodox Hinduism.

2. The religious beliefs of ancient India as prescribed in the sacred Vedas and Brahmanas and Upanishads.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Brahminism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)


Synonym: Brahminism

Synonym: Brahmanism (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Brahminism

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Heterodoxy

Judaism, Gentilism, Islamism, Islam, Mohammedanism, Babism, Sufiism, Neoplatonism, Turcism, Brahminism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sabianism, Gnosticism, Hylotheism, Mormonism; Christian Science.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Use in Literature: Brahminism

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

One would have said it was that hell of Brahminism, the most formidable of the seventeen abysses, which the Veda calls the Forest of Swords.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translations: Brahminism

Language Translations for "Brahminism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Romanian

  

brahmanism. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

đạo B la môn (brahmanism). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Brahminism

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-h-i-i-m-m-n-r-s"

-2 letters: bairnish, brainish, minibars.

-3 letters: animism, brinish, harmins, mihrabs, mimbars, minibar, rammish.

-4 letters: animis, arshin, bairns, banish, bimahs, brains, harmin, ihrams, inarms, marish, mbiras, mihrab, mimbar, minima, minims, minish, misaim, raisin, saimin, shairn, simian.

-5 letters: abris, airns, amins, amirs, animi, bairn, barms, barns, basin, bimah, bimas, brain, brans, brash, brims, brins, hairs, harms, iambi, iambs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Brahminism


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 72 61 68 6D 69 6E 69 73 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-.    .-    ....    --    ..    -.    ..    ...    --

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01110010 01100001 01101000 01101101 01101001 01101110 01101001 01110011 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#114 &#97 &#104 &#109 &#105 &#110 &#105 &#115 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0072 0061 0068 006D 0069 006E 0069 0073 006D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36846774797580758579

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Translations: Modern 		5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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