nature worship
Example Sentences
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Baker, detectives learned, had been a sweet-tempered practitioner of Wicca, a form of nature worship that shunned violence.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025
In the late 19th century, many tribespeople in Jharkhand, Odisha and other states renounced nature worship — some voluntarily and others coaxed by money, food and free education — and converted to Christianity.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2022
Worship of the Old Gods is akin to nature worship and takes place in Godswoods, holy places that contain weirwood trees, which have white bark and red leaves and ooze blood-like sap when cut.
From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2015
It's certainly tempting to recruit witches as symbols of paganism, nature worship, herbal remedies, earth-wisdom and ecological right-mindedness, if only to confound those who see them as purveyors of madness or Satanic child abuse.
From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 2012
But nature worship and ancestor worship are concomitant parts of the same religion, and belong to a status of culture highly advanced and characterized by the invention of conventional pictographs.
From On Limitations To The Use Of Some Anthropologic Data by Powell, John Wesley
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
