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Shintoist

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to Shinto / Shintoism.

    "From all accounts he was a hard-working idealist, who spared no pains to make converts, but his ascetic views must seem violently out of harmony with the Shintoist easy-going faith, which has for moral code the single maxim, "Follow your impulses and obey the Emperor.""

Adjective
  1. 1
    relating to or characteristic of Shintoism wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    An adherent of Shinto / Shintoism.

    "[…]; and the modern Shintoist concludes that the primæval Japanese were pure and holy from the fact that they are represented as a people who had no moral commandments."

  2. 2
    a believer in Shintoism wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Shinto + -ist.

Etymology 2

From Shinto + -ist.

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