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Monotheistic

Monotheistic \Mon`o*the*is"tic\, a. Of or pertaining to monotheism.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
monotheistic

1846, from monotheist + -ic.

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monotheistic

a. (context religion English) Believing in a single god, deity, spirit, etc., especially for an organized religion, faith, or creed.

WordNet
monotheistic

adj. believing that there is only one god [ant: polytheistic]

Usage examples of "monotheistic".

According to him, the Islamic Orient was spiritual, Semitic, tribalistic, radically monotheistic, un-Aryan: the adjectives resemble a catalogue of late-nineteenth-century anthropological descriptions.

Christian Europe invaded the Levant to seize Jerusalem and other sites considered holy by all three of the great monotheistic faiths.

They seem to have started as polytheists of the routine sort and then, very suddenly, became the first monotheistic religion in human history, and codified that religion with a series of laws and customs.

And at the next stage, when Reason became the God of the Enlightenment, the God of monotheistic and mythic religions became the oppressive Devil of free thought and full human potentialthe God of mythic religions now had to be fought, overcome, transcended: it became the Devil of the Enlightenment.