Definition of Polytheist

1. Noun. One who believes in a plurality of gods.

Generic synonyms: Theist

Definition of Polytheist

1. n. One who believes in, or maintains the doctrine of, a plurality of gods.

Definition of Polytheist

1. Noun. a believer in, or advocate of, polytheism ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Polytheist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Polytheist

polytenies
polytenisation
polytenization
polyteny
polyterpene
polyterpenes
polyterpenoid
polyterpenoids
polytetrafluoroethylene
polytetrafluoroethylenes
polytetrahydrofuran
polythalamia
polythalamous
polytheism
polytheisms
polytheist (current term)
polytheistic
polytheistical
polytheistically
polytheists
polytheize
polytheized
polytheizes
polytheizing
polythelia
polythelism
polythene
polythenes
polytherapy
polythermal

Literary usage of Polytheist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"Yet at the same time, in the true spirit of a polytheist, he accuses them of adoring Earth, Water, Fire, the Winds, and the Sun and Moon. ..."

2. The Origin and Development of Religious Belief by Sabine Baring-Gould (1892)
"... of resistances—Classification of resisting forces—Nature worship— Brute worship—Personification of phenomena—The Greek the typical polytheist—The names ..."

3. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"... was a polytheist is acknowledged by all, some affirming it to be signified in his very name, as given him after his death ; it being interpreted by them ..."

4. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... who lived in the times of Adrian, and was so profest a polytheist, that he taxes the Jews for having been seduced by the frauds of Moses into this ..."

5. Asiatic Studies, Religious and Social by Alfred Comyn Lyall (1884)
"... of priests and deities, and probably begins with some accidental discoveries of natural laws—Witches persecuted in polytheist countries because their ..."

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