| 单词 | olympianism | 
| 释义 | Olympianismn. 1.  The polytheistic religious system of the ancient Greeks, in which the Olympians were the chief gods and goddesses. In extended use: any polytheistic religious system. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > 			[noun]		 > polytheism > of Greek deities Hellenism1591 Olympianism1892 1892    N. Amer. Rev. Mar. 368  				This old Pelasgian system crops out incessantly in the Poems [sc. the Iliad and Odyssey]; and..it appears but slightly in the architecture, the art, the public institutions..of the country. In these great departments Olympianism has reigned supreme. 1926    Philos. Rev. 35 540  				As in the Orphic reaction against Olympianism, he will return to the more human and functional gods. 1964    Harvard Stud. Classical Philol. 68 324  				In the earlier part of the trilogy [sc.The Oresteia] the extirpation of the family appears inevitable from the raw and capricious Homeric Olympianism which governs the world. 2002    Columbia Encycl. 		(ed. 7)	 		(Electronic ed.)	 at Polytheism  				The religion of dynastic Egypt included hundreds of deities, but worship (as in Greek Olympianism) tended to be city-centered.  2.  An attitude or demeanour of godlike power, superiority, or personal excellence. Cf. Olympian adj.1 ΚΠ 1918    F. Hackett Ireland viii. 234  				The superb theorem of Abraham Lincoln—‘No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent’—has something in it that surpasses the lonely Olympianism of Nietzsche. 1941    Mod. Lang. Notes 56 28  				One..marvels at Pushkin's triumph over his torn self, a victory unmatched by the empty idealism of detached Olympianism of Weimar. 1982    Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Aug. 915/4  				Emerson's heirs..edited the Journal according to their own literary notions and their sense of family privacy and Emersonian Olympianism. 2000    Isis 91 527  				Their professional stature had given them a sense of ‘olympianism’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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