单词 | wodenism |
释义 | Wodenismn. The worship of Woden (Odin), the highest god of the Germanic pantheon; the mythology and religious doctrine of the ancient Germanic peoples, esp. the Anglo-Saxons, before the introduction of Christianity. Cf. Odinism n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Odinism > [noun] Odinism1822 Wodenism1830 1830 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 16 Antiquities 84 Any country, where Druidism, Christianity, or Wodenism prevailed. 1891 J. C. Atkinson Forty Years Moorland Parish 236 Wodenism was so completely vanquished that even the coming of the Danes failed to revive it. 1917 S. Atlantic Q. 16 207 A touch of the Kaiser's delight in the traditions of Wodenism was shown when he officiated..at the launching of a small iron-clad of the German navy. 1970 Medium Ævum 39 9 Unferth seems to have been..a servitor of the one-eyed god, a divine favourite, a Woden's man..; and vestiges of this Wodenism are still discernible in the poem as we have received it. 2013 M. T. Burton These Mortal Remains xiv. 79 Some of them are into a revival of Wodenism and the old Norse gods. Not Spencer, though. He's a thoroughgoing atheist. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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