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mysticism

[mis-tuh-siz-uhm] / ˈmɪs təˌsɪz əm /


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Nor is it trying to emulate the high court drama and mysticism of “House of the Dragon,” also scored by Djawadi.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2026

Fortune telling and mysticism are common in Eastern Europe, she explains.

From Los Angeles Times May 4, 2026

Beta takes a similar approach to expressions of spirituality and mysticism, which there is a fair amount of in this book, given Alice Coltrane’s personal journey into becoming Swamini Turiyasangitananda.

From Salon Apr. 14, 2026

Amid the devastation, strains of oddball mysticism have arisen.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 14, 2025

There was no mysticism, no invoking of God, merely a passionate identification of all present with a will to right wrongs.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

But when these mellifluous mysticisms are once translated into "the vulgar tongue" they prove to be, strange to say, easily within the comprehension of the ordinary layman.

From Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration by Louis Dechmann

They took refuge in the most sombre of mysticisms, or, at least, in dogmatism of the narrowest kind.

From The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Nahum Slouschz

Stoicism, hedonism, the faith of his childhood, new-fangled mysticisms would join hands and hold revel round his soul for those twelve weeks, those eighty-four days, those two thousand and sixteen hours.…

From The Education of Eric Lane by Stephen McKenna

At all times and in all places, these two mysticisms have given each other the hand.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

It had its origin in that instinctive yearning after the supernatural, the Divine, which dwells in all human hearts, and which has revealed itself in all philosophies, mysticisms, and religions.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker




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