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vampirism|ˈvæmpaɪrɪz(ə)m|
Also vampyrism.
[f. vampire n.]
The collective facts or ideas associated with the supposed existence and habits of vampires.
1794–6E. Darwin Zoon. II. 63 The supposed existence..of witchcraft, vampyrism, animal magnetism and American tractors. 1819[Polidori] The Vampyre Introd. p. xxii, The same measures were adopted with the corses of those persons who had previously died from vampyrism. 1855Smedley Occult Sci. 66 Instances of Vampirism, which chiefly occurred in Hungary. 1872Le Fanu In a Glass III. 262 He devoted himself to the..laborious investigation of the marvellously authenticated tradition of Vampirism.
fig.1801Southey Lett. (1856) I. 183 The Magazine exists;..the spirit having left it, I suspect vampirism in its present life. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. iii. ii, Treason, delusion, vampyrism, scoundrelism, from Dan to Beersheba! 1858O. W. Holmes Autocr. Breakf.-t. ix. (1883) 175 Ah! long illness is the real vampyrism. |