Crossword-Solution: SUPERSTITION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Superstition | n. | An excessive reverence for, or fear of, that which is unknown or mysterious. |
| Superstition | n. | 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. |
| Superstition | n. | The worship of a false god or gods; false religion; religious veneration for objects. |
| Superstition | n. | Belief in the direct agency of superior powers in certain extraordinary or singular events, or in magic, omens, prognostics, or the like. |
| Superstition | n. | Excessive nicety; scrupulous exactness. |
We have 19 clues for the answer “SUPERSTITION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| false worship or religion; an ignorant and irrational belief in supernatural agency | 1 answer |
| PRIMITIVE belief | 1 answer |
| Irrational belief | 1 answer |
| Belief in the supernatural | 1 answer |
| Bad-luck bringer, e.g. | 1 answer |
| ABERGLAUBE | 2 answers |
| mythos | 9 answers |
| folkway | 9 answers |
| AN IRRATIONAL BELIEF ARISING FROM IGNORANCE OR FEAR | 11 answers |
| Saga | 17 answers |
| Heterodoxy | 23 answers |
| mythology | 25 answers |
| Myth | 33 answers |
| Fable | 37 answers |
| [See blurb] | 38 answers |
| Heresy | 40 answers |
| Tale | 45 answers |
| Legend | 62 answers |
| History | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
NOTEOIM
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with SUPERSTITION (5)
But he knew not that the eye and hand were mine! With the superstition common to his brotherhood, he fancied himself given over to a fiend, to be tortured with frightful dreams and desperate thoughts, the sting of remorse and despair of pardon, as a foretaste of what awaits him beyond the grave.
The chairman of Teletype killed the proposal because it failed one incredibly important criterion: "It would be impossible to spell the name of the Deity correctly." In this way (or so, at least, hacker folklore has it) superstition triumphed over utility.
Such is the general purport of this legendary superstition, which has furnished materials for many a wild story in that region of shadows; and the spectre is known at all the country firesides, by the name of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.
What I advised the girl to do would seal our fate as well, since if I bowed to the inevitable decree of age-old superstition we must all remain and meet our fate in some horrible form within this awful abode of horror and cruelty.
Maybe we can get on the track of the secret original impulse, the _real_ impulse, that moved him to so nobly self—sacrifice his family in the Savior’s cause under the superstition that he was sacrificing himself.
Quotes with SUPERSTITION (3)
If you believed in Christianity or Islam it was called 'faith', but if you believed in astrology or friday the thirteenth it was Superstition!
Suddenly I began to find a strange meaning in old fairy-tales; woods, rivers, mountains, became living beings; mysterious life filled the night; with new interests and new expectations I began to dream again of distant travels; and I remembered many extraordinary things that I had heard about old monasteries. Ideas and feelings which had long since ceased to interest me suddenly began to assume significance and interest. A deep meaning and many subtle allegories appeared in w…
When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2011–2017).