Fakirs is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FAKIRS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• FAKIR, a Hindu ascetic, also FAKEER, FAQIR, FAQUIR
• a Muslim (or, loosely, a Hindu) religious ascetic who lives solely on alms.

Words related to FAKIRS

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How to use FAKIRS in a sentence

• Numerous Fakirs had established themselves here, strengthening the poor pilgrims with unctuous exhortations, and taking in return their pious gifts.
• The neighbourhood has, however, at present, lost its reputation for sanctity, and the offerings received are scarcely sufficient to maintain two or three Fakirs.
• Some were painted all over, and belonged mostly, as I was informed, to fakirs, with whom the town swarmed.
• It is an old trick of the fakirs to have themselves buried alive.
• Many of the fakirs endeavor to make themselves look as hideous as possible.
• It is a popular delusion that fakirs will not accept alms from anyone for any purpose, for I have considerable personal experience to the contrary.
• The larger number of fakirs are merely religious tramps, worthless, useless impostors, living upon the fears and superstitions of the people and doing more harm than good.
• And it is simple compared with some of the doings of these fakirs.
• These are a few of the wonderful things fakirs perform about the temples, and nobody has ever been able to discover how they do it.
• This, however, is due more to a desire to preserve the peace and prevent collisions between fanatics and fakirs than for any other reason.
• In the Indies, these fakirs visit all the great markets, all religious fetes, and usually all kinds of assemblages, in order to exhibit, themselves.
• It is in such degradation and such degeneration of human nature that fakirs excel, and it is from such a point of view that they are worth studying.
• This, however, is a character common to all fakirs.
• The fakirs were thus raised about thirty feet above ground, and while being made to spin around very rapidly, smilingly threw flowers to the faithful.
• It will be seen from this that fakirs are ingenious in their modes of exciting the compassion and charity of the faithful.
• Fakirs probably pass through the same phases that invalids do who are forced to keep perfectly quiet through a fracture or dislocation.
• He conducted a series of experiments with native fakirs, who gave him their confidence because he was a sympathetic man and spoke their language.
• I have heard of magic rings used by East Indian fakirs and magicians.
• The old shepherd and Sanka stood with their crooks on opposite sides of the flock, stood without stirring, like fakirs at their prayers, absorbed in thought.
• But, despite this, the buried fakirs, who are two months under ground and then come back into life, are very serious men.
• The exploits of the Indian fakirs almost, or quite, overcome the scepticism of Mr.
• Joseph of Cupertino, and by naked fakirs, in the open air.
• Big fakirs and crooks just live their lives in terror, afraid of their own shadows.
• Such extravagances led to abuses resembling the degradation of some modern fakirs.
• Young women and old, young men and old, children, fakirs and holy men pressed patiently forward, impelled and called by some mystic summons they could not explain.

Similar words containing FAKIR without suffix s

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