exorciser

Example Sentences

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A higher mode of belief is the best exorciser, because it makes the spiritual at one with the actual world instead of hostile, or at best alien.

From Among My Books First Series by Lowell, James Russell

A physician, according to the meaning of the old Sanscrit word, was the exorciser of disease, the man who fought with its demon.

From Myth and Science An Essay by Vignoli, Tito

The natural and indeed necessary complement to the priest as exorciser is the priest as the forecaster of the future.

From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris

Accompanying these threats, the actions indicated were symbolically performed by the exorciser on effigies of the witches made, in this case, of bitumen covered with pitch.

From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris

There is no place for ghostly foxes in the beautiful nature-world revealed by new studies to the new generation The omnipotent exorciser and reformer is the Kodomo.

From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Hearn, Lafcadio