neo-pagan
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3ADJ.
astounding
VERB + NEO-PAGAN
burst
NEO-PAGAN + NOUN
individualism
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adj
Of or relating to neo-paganism; a modern form of paganism.
The neopagan impulse of the classical revival.
1901, J. A. Symonds, American Journal of Sociology 6, page 560, The Italian Renaissance produced a brief but astounding burst of neo-pagan individualism.
noun
An adherent of neo-paganism; a modern pagan.
1868 April 5, William James, letter, in R. B. Perry (ed.), The thought and character of William James as revealed in unpublished correspondence, together with his published writings 1842–1910, (1935), volume I, page 268, The very persons who would most writhe and wail at their surroundings if transported back into early Greece, would, I think, be the neo-pagans and Hellas worshipers of today.
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3The neopagan impulse of the classical revival.
Wiktionary1901, J. A. Symonds, American Journal of Sociology 6, page 560, The Italian Renaissance produced a brief but astounding burst of neo-pagan individualism.
Wiktionary1868 April 5, William James, letter, in R. B. Perry (ed.), The thought and character of William James as revealed in unpublished correspondence, together with his published writings 1842–1910, (1935),
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