Morimo, noun

Forms:
Mooreemo, MoorimoShow more Also Mooreemo, Moorimo, Moreemo, Moremo, Morim, and with small initial.
Origin:
Sotho, SetswanaShow more Sotho and Setswana: see Modimo.
obs.
An early form of Modimo.
1824 Cape Chron. in S. Afr. Jrnl I. 79They had indeed heard of the ‘Moreemo’, (Deity); but only from their physicians, or ‘medicine men’.
1826 A.G. Bain Jrnls (1949) 31The natives..called me by no other name but Moorimo (god), for they said no mortal could make things live as I did on paper.
1833 S. Kay Trav. & Researches I. 236A few indeed there were who seemed to have some confused notion of invisible powers, whom they designated Mooreemo and Booreemo.
1835 A. Smith Diary (1940) II. 109I caused the interpreter to put several questions to them touching the Divine Being. They said they did not know the meaning of the word moremo.
1846 R. Moffat Missionary Labours 69Among the Bechuana tribes, the name adopted by the missionaries is Morimo.
1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. 641All the natives of this region have a clear idea of a Supreme Being...He is named ‘Morimo,’ ‘Molungo,’ ‘Reza,’ ‘Mpambe,’ in the different dialects spoken.
1871 J. Mackenzie Ten Yrs N. of Orange River 138The Bushmen will tell you in Sechuana, which is to him a foreign language, that this Agency or Agent is Morimo (God).
1925 D. Kidd Essential Kafir 102Morimo may be regarded as the god of the Bechuana.
An early form of Modimo.
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