aberglaube

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From German Aberglaube.

Noun[edit]

aberglaube

  1. (rare) superstition
    • 1880, Proceedings, volume 34, Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, page 8:
      Or, to put it otherwise yet once again: if truth and fidelity are the religion of the critic, the incidental creations of his glowing mind are his aberglaube — his “extra-belief”; and it has been known for these products of critical enthusiasm to exceed in value the texts in which they germinated.