cult

noungroup sharing belief

nounworship; form of ceremony

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noun group sharing belief

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faith

noun. belief in a higher being; community of believers

religion

noun. belief in divinity; system of beliefs

Word Origin & History

1610s, "worship," also "a particular form of worship," from French culte (17c.), from Latin cultus "care, labor; cultivation, culture; worship, reverence," originally "tended, cultivated," past participle of colere "to till" (see colony). Rare after 17c.; revived mid-19c. with reference to ancient or primitive rituals. Meaning "devotion to a person or thing" is from 1829.

Example Sentences for cult

He brought before her mind those widows who make a cult of their dead.

Here in Rome on every side was to be found the Cult of the Beautiful.

I am impelled by no fanatical zeal, and have no creed or cult of my own to vindicate.

He had found these fine examples of it and he vowed them indeed a sort of cult.

Of all Oriental religions the Persian cult was the last to reach the Romans.

In paganism a cult does not die violently, but after long decay.

This is a matter of no small concern to the curators of the Whitman cult.

A kind of Kilmer cult grew apace; he had his followers and his devotees.

The cult of Nergal does not figure prominently during this period.

Coequal in antiquity with the cult of Anu in Assyria is that of Dagan.

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