aberglauben.

1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma 77 Our word ‘superstition’..has come to be used in a merely bad sense, and to mean a childish and craven religiosity, With the German word it is not so; therefore Goethe can say with propriety and truth: ‘Aberglaube is the poetry of life.’]

1873 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 794 The most extravagant Aberglaube, to use a word Mr. M. Arnold has almost naturalized, is rooted in a prior glaube.

1903 Times 11 Dec. 9/6 Our insular pronunciation of Latin in an almost exaggerated form is a sort of Aberglaube.

1962 PMLA 77 295/1 The Scholar-Gipsy is a survival from an age when both Aberglaube and free thought flourished.

1994 R. S. Edgecombe Leigh Hunt & Poetry of Fancy iii. 103 Nostalgia for the Aberglaube of antiquity has impelled Hunt to give the Sestians a reverence that..salutes the sanctity of mutual love.