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Definition of Polytheism

1. Noun. Belief in multiple Gods.

Definition of Polytheism

1. n. The doctrine of, or belief in, a plurality of gods.

Definition of Polytheism

1. Noun. The belief of the existence of many gods. ¹

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Definition of Polytheism

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Polytheism

Literary usage of Polytheism

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

1. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Frederic Harrison (1896)
"SECOND PHASE : polytheism. DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEOLOGICAL AND MILITARY SYSTEM. ... In doing this, I shall regard polytheism in polytheism tne broad popular ..."

2. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1876)
"superiority of polytheism to Monotheism in the consecration thus given, the latter being unable to connect it habitually with the divine lineage of the ..."

3. The Positive Evolution of Religion, Its Moral and Social Reaction by Frederic Harrison (1913)
"CHAPTER V polytheism I PROCEED, in my systematic study of the moral and social efficacy of various religions, to consider that of polytheism—the worship of ..."

4. The Contemporary Review (1867)
"It is, on the whole, suited to the advance of intelligence, and elicits goodness. Like the polytheism out of which it grows, it is of various kinds. ..."

5. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire by Edward Gibbon (1862)
"... and were very deeply affected by a personal concern for the safety or prosperity of their tutelar deities. The ministers of polytheism, both in Rome and ..."

6. The Contemporary Review (1878)
"ON HENOTHEISM, polytheism, MONOTHEISM, AND ATHEISM.* Is Monotheism n Primitive Form of Religioni IF you consider how natural, how intelligible, ..."

7. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1835)
"We find tribes whose polytheism can be ascribed, almost beyond doubt, ... As to the views of the polytheism of antiquity, they may, perhaps, be classified ..."

8. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"polytheism comprises a class of Great Deities, ruling the course of Nature ... polytheism acknowledges, beside great fetish-deities like Heaven and Earth, ..."

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