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How to pronounce exorcism in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms dispossession
Type of supernaturalism
Derivation exorcist, exorcize

Examples of exorcism

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By acting out the fraud on camera, he hopes to bring down the exorcism industry.
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They believe Hitler was possessed by a demon and tried a long-distance exorcism.
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It would clarify the American mind, and that itself might be a kind of exorcism.
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Merrin excuses the younger priest and begins the exorcism, once more on his own.
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In fact, the parents sometimes wondered whether an exorcism might be appropriate.
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The gym can be a fine place to release those demons, but use the exorcism wisely.
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A fellowship of devout people sworn to fight demons organizes another exorcism.
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It is the equivalent of an evangelical church conducting a seance or an exorcism.
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Mr Hoskins testified in court that Africans do not practise exorcism like this.
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More examples
  • Freeing from evil spirits
  • (exorcist) one of the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church
  • (exorcist) someone who practices exorcism
  • Exorcism (from Late Latin exorcismus, from Greek exorkizein - to bind by oath) is the practice of evicting demons or other spiritual entities from a person or place which they are believed to have possessed by causing the entity to swear an oath. ...
  • "Exorcism" is Killing Joke's first single off their ninth studio album, Pandemonium. It was released on March 11, 1994.
  • The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film directed by William Friedkin, adapted by William Peter Blatty from his 1971 novel of the same name, and starring Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, and Jason Miller...
  • The ritual act of driving out supposed evil spirits from persons, places or things who are possessed by them
  • (exorcist) One who casts out an evil spirit.
  • (Exorcist) III ignored the events of Exorcist II and presented a satisfying conclusion to the story after 15 years.