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单词 neopagan
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neopagann.adj.

Brit. /ˌniːəʊˈpeɪɡ(ə)n/, U.S. /ˌnioʊˈpeɪɡ(ə)n/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: neo- comb. form, pagan n.
Etymology: < neo- comb. form + pagan n.
A. n.
A modern adherent of a pagan religion; a modern pagan.
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1868 W. James Let. 5 Apr. in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) I. 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.
1876 L. Stephen Hist. Eng. Thought 18th Cent. II. 437 The ‘man of feeling’..would in these days be a ritualist or a neopagan.
1926 Amer. Mercury Apr. 451/2 She is..one of the neo-pagans who stand with Juana de Ibarbourou and Alfonsina Storni as chief representatives of a new poetic womanhood in South America.
1969 World Politics 21 414 The Dean of Chichester,..who realized that the neopagans were not just harmless savages nor their creed and cult just a party game.
1994 D. Rushkoff Cyberia iii. xi. 143 In the words of one neopagan, ‘The magic of today is the technology of tomorrow.’
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or characterized by a modern form of paganism, or a revival of ancient paganism.
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1877 J. A. Symonds Renaissance in Italy iv. 193 The neopagan impulse of the classical revival.
1901 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 6 560 The Italian Renaissance produced a brief but astounding burst of neo-pagan individualism.
1940 Jrnl. Politics 2 192 The neo-pagan meanings of words like objektiver Geist, Geisteswissenschaft, Blut, Ehre, Führer, have no equivalents in French or English.
1982 M. Z. Bradley Mists of Avalon p. viii I would like to express my grateful thanks to local neopagan groups;..the Covenant of the Goddess..the New Reformed Druids.
2000 Intell. Rep. Winter 43/3 They have influenced many of the U.S. ‘racialist’ elements of neo-pagan religions.

Derivatives

neopaganize v. Obsolete rare (transitive) to make neopagan in character.
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1888 19th Cent. Sept. 346 To classicalise, to neopaganise, his native and natural Teutonic genius.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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