"Brahmanism" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "brahmin",
        "3": "ism"
      },
      "expansion": "brahmin + -ism",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From brahmin + -ism. Introduced in 1816 as Brahmenism by George S. Faber (OED).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Brahmanism",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "42 34 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "41 30 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ism",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "40 31 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "49 23 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "43 32 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "43 30 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The principles and religious practice of the Brahmins, aspects of Hinduism as practiced by the Brahmin caste of India."
      ],
      "id": "en-Brahmanism-en-name-2~MX7Y4J",
      "links": [
        [
          "Brahmin",
          "Brahmin"
        ],
        [
          "Hinduism",
          "Hinduism"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "81 10 9",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "principles and religious practice of Brahmins",
          "word": "brahmalaisuus"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "42 34 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1972, Cromwell Crawford, review of L. M. Joshi, Brahmanism, Buddhism and Hinduism, Philosophy East and West",
          "text": "Alongside Brahmanism was the non-Aryan Shramanic culture with its roots going back to prehistoric times."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Historical Vedic ritualism, contrasted with Shramana traditions."
      ],
      "id": "en-Brahmanism-en-name-dLY1-WTE",
      "links": [
        [
          "Vedic",
          "Vedic"
        ],
        [
          "Shramana",
          "Shramana"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "15 79 6",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Vedic ritualism",
          "word": "brahmalaisuus"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "42 34 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "July 9, 1919, letter from T.S. Eliot to John Quinn",
          "text": "I am sorry to say that I have found it uphill and exasperating work trying to impose Joyce on such “intellectual” people, or people whose opinion carries weight as I know, in London. … There is a strong body of critical Brahminism, destructive and conservative in temper, which will not have Joyce."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The conduct or attitudes ascribed to the social or cultural elite within a given society."
      ],
      "id": "en-Brahmanism-en-name--XO4MKsa"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "Brahmenism"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "Brahminism"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Brahmanism"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -ism",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Finnish translations"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "brahmin",
        "3": "ism"
      },
      "expansion": "brahmin + -ism",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From brahmin + -ism. Introduced in 1816 as Brahmenism by George S. Faber (OED).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Brahmanism",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The principles and religious practice of the Brahmins, aspects of Hinduism as practiced by the Brahmin caste of India."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Brahmin",
          "Brahmin"
        ],
        [
          "Hinduism",
          "Hinduism"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1972, Cromwell Crawford, review of L. M. Joshi, Brahmanism, Buddhism and Hinduism, Philosophy East and West",
          "text": "Alongside Brahmanism was the non-Aryan Shramanic culture with its roots going back to prehistoric times."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Historical Vedic ritualism, contrasted with Shramana traditions."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Vedic",
          "Vedic"
        ],
        [
          "Shramana",
          "Shramana"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "July 9, 1919, letter from T.S. Eliot to John Quinn",
          "text": "I am sorry to say that I have found it uphill and exasperating work trying to impose Joyce on such “intellectual” people, or people whose opinion carries weight as I know, in London. … There is a strong body of critical Brahminism, destructive and conservative in temper, which will not have Joyce."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The conduct or attitudes ascribed to the social or cultural elite within a given society."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Brahmenism"
    },
    {
      "word": "Brahminism"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "principles and religious practice of Brahmins",
      "word": "brahmalaisuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Vedic ritualism",
      "word": "brahmalaisuus"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Brahmanism"
}