zoroastrismhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zoroastrism_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_useZoroastrism, n.
Revised 2023

Zoroastrismnoun

  1. 1819–
    1. 1819
      It must be by confounding it with Zoroasterism [French zoroasterisme], that Eudoxus and Hermippus have put back its founder to five or six thousand years before Plato.
      W. Corbet, translation of C. F. Volney, New Researches on Ancient History vol. II. 72
    2. 1885
      The followers of an ancient and venerable religion, which preceded Zoroastrism, and to a certain extent paved the way for it.
      D. D. P. Sanjana, translation of W. Geiger, Civilization of Eastern Iranians in Ancient Times vol. I. ii. 117
    3. 2012
      Religious purity and impurity—a dichotomy that is ubiquitous in, for example, traditional Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and Zoroastrism.
      M. Warburg in A. N. Longva & A. S. Roald, Relig. Minorities in Middle East viii. 213

Originally published as part of the entry for Zoroastric, adj.

Zoroastrism, n. was revised in March 2023.

Zoroastrism, n. was last modified in July 2023.