aberglaube
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From German Aberglaube.
Noun
[edit]aberglaube
- (rare) superstition
- 1880, Proceedings, volume 34, Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, page 8:
- Or, to put it otherwise yet once again: if truth and fidelity are the religion of the critic, the incidental creations of his glowing mind are his aberglaube — his “extra-belief”; and it has been known for these products of critical enthusiasm to exceed in value the texts in which they germinated.