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单词 vampirism
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vampirismn.

Brit. /ˈvampʌɪ(ə)rɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈvæmpaɪ(ə)ˌrɪzəm/
Forms: Also vampyrism.
Etymology: < vampire n.
The collective facts or ideas associated with the supposed existence and habits of vampires.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > malignant monster > [noun] > vampire > facts surrounding
vampirism1794
1794–6 E. Darwin Zoonomia II. 63 The supposed existence..of witchcraft, vampyrism, animal magnetism and American tractors.
1819 J. W. Polidori Vampyre Introd. p. xxii The same measures were adopted with the corses of those persons who had previously died from vampyrism.
1855 E. Smedley et al. Occult Sci. 66 Instances of Vampirism, which chiefly occurred in Hungary.
1872 J. S. Le Fanu In a Glass Darkly III. 262 He devoted himself to the..laborious investigation of the marvellously authenticated tradition of Vampirism.
figurative.1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 183 The Magazine exists;..the spirit having left it, I suspect vampirism in its present life.1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iii. ii. 150 Treason, delusion, vampyrism, scoundrelism, from Dan to Beersheba.1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table ix. 235 Ah! long illness is the real vampyrism.
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