obi

Examples

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• Best of all, from the point of view of the Obi and his court, this was officially sanctioned by the colonial power structure, including the pesky missionaries.

  Academic text (2001)

• Indeed, the wives of an Obi were seen as polluted with the king's power and potentially dangerous to the town through their intimacy with the king.

  Academic text (2001)

• Once before he went to England, Obi heard his father talk with deep feeling about the mystery of the printed word to an illiterate kinsman:

  Academic text (2001)

• Far from its manly, self-reliant past, the clan is "prepared to fight to the last" to help Obi (6), but they fight not in a war but in the law courts!

  Academic text (1999)

• No Longer at Ease tells the tale of Nwoye's son Obi, the third Okonkwo, who is the first in the village to get a university education and a well-paying job in the civil service.

  Academic text (1999)

• The clan stakes its future on getting the youth to "learn book," that is, acquire knowledge of the white man's ways, and Obi wholeheartedly buys into Western ideals.

  Academic text (1999)

• Optimistically, Nurse Elms soon acquired several sets of twins for the refuge, along with her first matron, one of the widows of a deceased Obi (king) of Onitsha.

  Academic text (2001)

• The plaza is said to refresh (refrescar) them before they are addressed through divination with four shards of coconut meat (obi).

• Indeed, the wives of an obi were seen as polluted with the king's power and potentially dangerous to the town through their intimacy with the king.

• Optimistically, Nurse Elms soon acquired several sets of twins for the refuge, along with her first matron, one of the widows of a deceased obi (king) of Onitsha.

Synonyms

O

obeah

vsobi

• UK

5 9.9

A set of African-based spiritual and magical healing practices in the Caribbean

is a religious belief system that focuses on the idea rather than specific rituals

O

obiism

vsobi

• UK

9.9

A set of beliefs about magic and spiritual practices from Africa, practiced in the Caribbean

is the same belief but used more widely across tropical Americas as well

Surface Forms

Etymology