orenda

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Iroquois Indian

[edit] Noun

orenda (uncountable)

  1. A mystical power thought to pervade all things.
    • 1920 George Willis Cooke - The Social Evolution of Religion
      In the Handbook of American Indians, Alice Fletcher describes the Iroquois conception of orenda as "a fictive force, principle, or magic power"
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