Superstition is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SUPERSTITION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• false worship or religion; an ignorant and irrational belief in supernatural agency
• excessively credulous belief in and reverence for the supernatural
• a widely held but irrational belief in supernatural influences, especially as leading to good or bad luck, or a practice based on such a belief
• An excessive reverence for, or fear of, that which is unknown or mysterious.
• An ignorant or irrational worship of the Supreme Deity; excessive exactness or rigor in religious opinions or practice; extreme and unnecessary scruples in the observance of religious rites not commanded, or of points of minor importance; also, a rite or practice proceeding from excess of sculptures in religion.
• The worship of a false god or gods; false religion; religious veneration for objects.
• Belief in the direct agency of superior powers in certain extraordinary or singular events, or in magic, omens, prognostics, or the like.
• Excessive nicety; scrupulous exactness.
• an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of causation; an irrational abject attitude of mind toward the supernatural, nature, or God resulting from superstition

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Words that contain SUPERSTITION

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How to use SUPERSTITION in a sentence

• Among the ancients, this superstition was a great engine of state.
• They had a dislike of dirt, which had become quite a superstition to them.
• As I trudged, half frightened, into the road, and the fog closed about me, it seemed to my childish superstition like a horde of long-imprisoned ghosts let loose, and angry.
• It was he who gave the mortal blow to superstition and to the power of the clergy.
• The peasantry can with difficulty be persuaded to open any of them, on account of a prevalent superstition that it will bring bad luck.
• She was undoubtedly sincere in her piety, but it made me sad to look upon such deluded superstition.
• On the other hand, however, they have no superstition as regards the sanctity of the ancient dead, and they do not hesitate on that ground to rifle the tombs.
• He was not free from superstition, and the evil-omened bird was no friend of his.
• It is a very old and widely spread superstition that when a dog howls at night someone not far away is dying or will soon die.
• To these real terrors and dangers of the mark are added the fancied ones of superstition.
• They assert that all misery is due to the superstition that there is a God.
• Shagpat stands for any evil or superstition, and Shibli Bagarag, the hero, is the reformer.
• The Indians, however, with their usual superstition attributed its good effects to some mysterious healing power in water itself.
• Having his own private superstition about Friday, Broffin chose a Wednesday afternoon for his call at the house on the lake front.
• It cannot be brushed aside as mere popular superstition, formed of fancies and prejudices, to which intelligent opposition would be useless.
• Higgins adds that he knows of no superstition connected with the fire, and no tradition of its origin.
• The rest was superstition and the quaking use of a false physics.
• Here was the effective damage that the Encyclopaedia inflicted on the church as the organ of a stationary superstition.
• They think it the root of superstition, that greatest of all the plagues by which poor humanity is afflicted.
• It is indeed superstition, idolatry, and nonsense, that civil power at present supports almost every where under the idea of supporting sacred truth, and opposing dangerous error.
• But we have little need to wonder at the superstition of past ages, when we look at the folly and credulity of our own.
• Can we, with this key to its intellectual history, be really astonished that Shankhill Road should move all its life in a red mist of superstition.
• The sources of this superstition are easily traced.

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