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Definition of Polytheist
1. Noun. One who believes in a plurality of gods.
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
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Definition of Polytheist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polytheist
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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