[f. SOLAR a. + -ISM.] The theory of solar myths; excessive use of, or adherence to, this theory.
1885. Gladstone, in 19th Cent., XVIII. 700. Solarism—a system which prides itself above all things on its exhibiting the primitive state of things. Ibid. (1886), Ibid., XIX. 21. It is to this monopolising pretension that I seek to apply the name of solarism.
1889. Max Müller, Nat. Relig., xiii. 349. Fetishism, totemism, animism, solarism, shumanism.
