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Definition of fetish:

  • (noun) a form of sexual desire in which gratification depends to an abnormal degree on some object or item of clothing or part of the body;
  • (noun) a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers
  • (noun) excessive or irrational devotion to some activity; "made a fetish of cleanliness"

Sentence Examples:

And now we have narrowly escaped destruction because you have offended the white man's fetish.

It eliminates those parts of the native fetish that were a wholesome restraint on the African.

No savage ever supposed that his fetish was a simple three-cornered stone and nothing more.

By studying religions in groups and incidentally, they learned to distinguish the fetish in each.

"Perfectly absurd," he snapped, "to attempt to make a fetish of name and age of Prime Minister."

These 'medicines' or memberships alone can perfect the shape of the fetishes and worship them.

Political principles responsible for such opposition no longer merit the name; they have become a fetish.

The three queens observed fasts, kept vows, made offerings to the fetish, all to no effect.

Application is made to the fetish for counsel and aid in every domestic and public emergency.

The chief, I fancy, looked upon it as my fetish, and certainly regarded it with considerable awe.

There were still other stones which, from their resemblance to animals, may have been personal fetishes.

A fetish must not be made of that idea, especially by a people conscious of lofty imperial destiny.

It usually consists of a head, claws, stuffed skin, or other representative feature of the fetish animal.

These fetishes represent not only events but ideas (a vision, a dream, a thought, or an action).

On another occasion the same antagonist warned Fawcett that his love of competition was becoming a fetish.

It involved a series of complex ideas about fetishes, ancestors, and deities which required a high degree of intelligence.

Bacon has become a fetish for some people and is considered a help, not a detriment to digestion.

I seem to have been an inefficient fetish, but I do not know whose quarrel they had embraced.

Women's hair, throat, neck, shoulders, arms and breasts seem to be the most frequently mentioned fetishes.

As has been previously pointed out, nowhere before nor since has pure legality been made such a fetish.

All his characteristic scorn and ridicule come out when dealing with the fetish book of his adversaries.

According to circumstances a fetish might be a mountain, a rock or a river, a plant or an animal.

It was a fetish hut or temple, composed of a shed about ten feet square, raised on four bamboos.

Furthermore, this preoccupation with the faithful reproduction of an old style has made a fetish of consistency.

One must not forget either that certain fetishes are superficial and likely to disappear early in life.

The prayer to the fetish for rain is as contrary to true religion as it is contrary to true science.

Had it been known and a fetish, they could not have become the practical people that they are.

Many of these are probably tribal or occupational fetishes, of which instances will be given in another place.

He constructs fetishes, intentionally giving them a striking form resembling that of a man or of some animal.

What excuse they made I don't know, but I suppose it had something to do with fetish worship.

Variety is very good so far, but we are in danger of making a fetish of changes and variations.

As for ourselves we have no doubt that these objects of popular devotion were no more than ancient fetishes.

It was a fetish, a sort of idol that the "Law" commanded all creeds and classes to worship.

Bridge had arisen as a new society fetish which drew to itself the interests and time of all.

Now add to this the strange, but at that time very real, worship of government as a fetish.

We worship many fetishes, we of the superior civilization, and the institution of marriage is the chief of them.

The fetish is not at all an independent cult-object characteristic of some primitive or more advanced stage of development.

There is no person living who is not more or less subject to the compulsive attraction of some fetish.

The animating force of a fetish must be individual, and cannot animate more than one object at a time.

Just as a fetish is a material thing, and something more, so a magician is a man and something more.

Was the result of the consultation of the fetish of the town favorable or not to the visitors?

Even the savage clings to his fetish in the mountain top and will not permit of insult to it.

The ill effect of hard work is a fetish created by people who are themselves afraid of hard work.

A fetish, of whatever kind, is but a charm, and imports no more than is conveyed by that word.

We should also, on this theory, teach our children, as a natural introduction to religion, to practice fetish worship.

This need not surprise us, since for such men every object is a fetish, which contains a soul.

In the daily school, which she attended when the fancy seized her, she ruled as a popular fetish.

Remember she's only twenty years of age, and was an infant in arms when the family fetish disappeared.

This taboo must be observed to insure the protection of the fetish; to break it would entail disease and death.

That distrust is today a fetish and therefore much more potent that it was when it was a reason.

Boy and man he served the Government faithfully; loyalty was his high fetish, and Sanders knew this.

For always the fetish or the beast, or whatever it may be, is not the real object of worship.

Behind the fetish was the religion of ancestor worship, and the fetish is better understood as a religious symbol.

The traditional simplicity of their class is a convenience to such men, and they have made a fetish of it.

Their vest was of red cloth, covered with fetishes and charms in cases of gold, silver, and embroidery.

From the individual fetish man passed to tribal ones, which in their first form were huge boulders and trees.

He was sacrificing to the fetish for our deliverance from the perils of the Way of the Thousand Steps.

She turned to her immediate household; but there, too, the efficiency which had been her fetish made interference unnecessary.

It has always struck me, though, that the fetish machinery of the English Establishment is imperfect in one particular.

Other fetish stones, again, by their form prove that they are the work of another or a higher race.

By long anticipation a superstitious halo had formed round the abstract question of audience: it grew into a kind of fetish.

This much is known; but what other practices are carried on in these women's fetish groves cannot be told.

To some, the universal ballot is a sort of fetish, which they distrust and despise yet dare not offend.

There are several reasons why feminine fetishes are far more important to both men and women than masculine fetishes.

The relation of the fetish to the spiritual power behind it, though everywhere recognized, was not easy to define.

It may be residual, and therefore an attribute of the individual, or it may be inherent in some charm or fetish.

Men still bow down before the fetish of mere quantity in population, and that worship may be their undoing.

In this work we find the first mention of some Pueblo fetishes, with their names, as understood at the time.

He comes and goes, like a gray ghost, and he has a fetish more powerful than a thousand ordinary devils.

Fatal enough, but unfortunately the horrible fetish belief is utilized in connection with poison and the destruction of an enemy.

To be a wretched fetish, whom all watch as carefully as the tablets of their ancestors on the family altar!

Eddy as to the necessity of eliminating a medical fetish, but I disagree with her about religiously preserving a theological one.

Doubtless, the owner of a fetish which acts knows and can tell of the wonderful things it has done.

During succeeding months I found two more nests, with similar fetish of sound vibrations, which led to their discovery.

This may arise from fetish reasons, but the idea certainly gains support from the conduct of the individual fisherman.

The order of Fetish-Men is further augmented by persons who declare that the fetish has suddenly seized on them.

The selection of such a fetish is determined in an important measure by the fact that it possesses an unusual form.

A man of the world, knowing her weakness and her fetishes, would have recognized that she might become either.

All the more reason why we should not make a fetish of the Bible, as the Turk does of the Koran.

Unfortunately, hearing it after the event, she could not take Isaiah's advice, and had too hastily condemned the fetish.

When he has arrived here he will exhibit his fetishes, and ostensibly to repay you he will give you your choice.

In a few days the chief unfolded all his fetishes, informing his son-in-law that he could take his choice.

A piece of wood or a stone, at first, seems to him more enduring than a man; therefore he worships the fetish.

The other imagines that he owes success to the influence of his protector and his superiority over his foe's fetish.

Be it granted that on the whole they know more about the details of Fetish procedure than the men do.

I've been sitting in fetish worship half the evening, and I'll never dare tell how much I paid for it.

A fetish is credited with mysterious powers owing to its being the habitation, temporary or permanent, of a spiritual being.

With the help of some other priests he was engaged in binding the fetish on to a little raft of reeds.

We call the system of cause and effect in the mind of a savage, Fetish; but Fetish is simply savage science.

Fetishes, which are any objects believed to possess miraculous power, were common among the people, and idols or images were worshiped.

Then she called upon the fetish of her tribe, put her hands to her breast and fell down dead.

Every one of them will probably head the list of physical qualities he has observed in her with a different fetish.

I was thinking that in the old days McCord had made rather a fetish of touching nothing stronger than beer.

To each of the others who will dance with her (two or three) she gives a fetish from her bag.

Sometimes the so-called fetish had an accidental, which was taken to be a causal, connection with a stroke of good luck.

Then he brings out his fetish and with certain ceremonies and invocations he puts it on the track of the prey.

The stress which they place on the possessive works in their case as the fetish which a savage takes into battle.

Why a woman should desire such a sight, and desire it like a fetish, is one of the obscure phenomena of feminine psychology.

How long must we pursue a road in which promises are all fetishes in front of us and all fragments behind us?

It was a fetish with him, a past he was in duty bound to revisit time and again, and to mourn over.