Complete Definition of "orenda"

English

Etymology
Iroquois Indian

Noun
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  1. A mystical power thought to pervade all things.

Quotations
1920 George Willis Cooke - The Social Evolution of Religion
:In the Handbook of American Indians, Alice Fletcher describes the Iroquois conception of orenda as "a fictive force, principle, or magic power"

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