Definitions for orenda

orenda o·ren·da

Spelling: [aw-ren-duh, oh-ren-]
IPA: /ɔˈrɛn də, oʊˈrɛn-/

Orenda is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 169 anagrams from letters in orenda (adenor).

Definitions for orenda

noun

  1. a supernatural force believed by the Iroquois Indians to be present, in varying degrees, in all objects or persons, and to be the spiritual force by which human accomplishment is attained or accounted for.

Origin of orenda

1902; coined by U.S. ethnologist J.N.B. Hewitt from the supposed Huron cognate of Mohawk orę́˙naʔ inherent power (akin to karę́˙naʔ song; compare Seneca oęnǫʔ power, song with power, kaęnǫʔ s

Examples for orenda

If an animal escapes from a hunter who is pursuing it, it is because the orenda of the former was the more powerful.

This notion of orenda, a sort of pan-vitalism, is more fluid than animism, and probably precedes it.

Like orenda it manifests itself in noises, but specially mysterious ones, it is mana that is rustling in the trees.

A sorcerer or shaman has orenda, but as much would be said of a man succeeding in his enterprises.

This orenda is your power to do things, your force, sometimes almost your personality.

The orenda of the rabbit controls the snow and fixes the depth to which it will fall.

And what is true of the mana as well as the orenda and wakan, may be said equally well of the totemic principle.

At bottom, there is nothing in the world which does not have its quota of orenda; but the quantities vary.

When a storm is brewing the magician is said to be making its orenda.

The orenda girls turned instinctively toward Isagani, who smiled silently.

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