Usage of "superstition"

Pseudoscience and superstition are easy to understand; science is complex and inaccessible. 
 Skeptics and true believers: the exhilarating connection between... 

Pansare was known for attacking discrimination, superstition, caste politics and religious fundamentalism. 
 Reuters 

Sacrifices, of human beings by Romans; the result of superstition; flesh of. 
 Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies 

The persecutions of the early Church originated partly in selfishness and superstition. 
 The Ancient Church: Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitu... 

Such are the blendings of superstition and religion in the Indian mind. 
 Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian ... 

The greatness and loneliness of the sea does breed superstition in mariners. 
 The Shadow of the North: A Story of Old New York and a Lost Camp... 

I will root out every superstition in a circle of twenty miles. 
 Feats on the Fiord / The third book in "The Playfellow" 

For Malaysia's aviation industry that superstition looks perilously close to the truth. 
 The Irish Times 

It could not be much work, Ish decided, to overcome this superstition. 
 Earth Abides 

It is not, she assures us, a question of superstition or insecurity. 
 The Irish Times 

With him it eventuates in fantastic myth-making, rather than in coercive superstition. 
 The Theory of the Leisure Class 

This was perhaps a lot of superstition together with some practical facts. 
 The Meaning of Witchcraft 

News accounts depict hordes of emotional people trading on hunch and superstition. 
 The Guardian 

I've heard many things spoken about it, friend, and mostly Saxon superstition. 
 The buried giant 

General superstition had shunned it, and the plot beside Smith was vacant. 
 Selected Stories of Bret Harte 

Beautiful was the Etruscan superstition that the ancestors become the household gods. 
 Zanoni 

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Translations for superstition

русский

предрассудок суеверие

португальский

superstições superstição crendice

испанский

superstición supersticioso supersticiosos supersticiosa supersticiosas creencias supersticiosas supersticiones supersticiosamente supersticion

каталонский

supersticions superstició

Superstition через время

Superstition в диалектах

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