fetishistn.

1845 O. A. Brownson Wks. VI. 384 As well might we charge the people of Massachusetts with being fetichists.

1865 J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. 28 35 The Fetishist thinks..that his Fetish is alive.

1875 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 3) i. 4 These races were Fetichists before they became Buddhist.

1897 H. Ellis & J. A. Symonds Sexual Inversion vi. 130 There is reason to believe that the erotic fetichist usually displays the further congenital element of hereditary neurosis.

1906 H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex V. ii. 15 Casanova, an acute student and lover of women who was in no degree a foot fetichist, remarks that all men who share his interest in women are attracted by their feet.

1954 I. Murdoch Under Net xv. 219 I am not a fetishist and I would rather hold a woman any day than her shoes.

1956 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 13 Oct. 854/2 I have been unable to find any previous record of a fetishist who responded favourably to aversion therapy.

1965 G. Melly Owning-up vi. 69 A large collie dog called Shaun..was a coat fetishist, and could often be surprised rogering the mackintoshes in the hall.

1968 B. Spacks Sophomore 19 ‘Oh’, he said, ‘the brassiere! I'm just’—he laughed dryly—‘a clothes fetishist, that's all.’

1859 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 29 339 The faith of ancient Egypt..was essentially fetissist.

1861 G. Smith Doctr. Hist. Progress 6 The negro and fetichist populations of Africa.