[f. prec. + -ISM.] The worship of Vishnu.
1861. Gloucester Jrnl., 22 June, 3/4. Mr. Fisk … gave numerous pictures of the various superstitions of India, Vishnuism, Thuggism, the religion of the Hindoos, &c.
1871. Alabaster, Wheel of Law, 250. Veneration of holy foot-prints is not a peculiarly Buddhist idea, but is also found in other religions, and particularly in Vishnuism.
1875. Sir W. W. Hunter, in P. E. Roberts, Life, xiii. (1901), 238. Brahma-worship … is a strange mixture of Vishnuism, Sivaism, and something much older.
1882. Athenæum, 17 June, 759/1. Prof. Weber’s theory that Christianity shaped to a certain extent Vishnuism.
