Shintoist

Variant of Shinto

Shinto definition

Shinto (s̸hin′tō)

noun

a principal religion of Japan, with emphasis upon the worship of nature and of ancestors and ancient heroes and upon the divinity of the emperor: prior to 1945, the state religion

Etymology: Jpn shintō, shindō < SinoJpn shin, god (< Chin shen) + tō, dō, way

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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