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monotheism

Word definitions for monotheism in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. belief in a single God [ant: polytheism ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monotheism \Mon"o*the*ism\, n. [Mono- + Gr. ? god: cf. F. monoth['e]isme.] The doctrine or belief that there is but one God.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"belief that there is but one god," 1650s, from Greek mono- , comb. form of monos "single, alone" (see mono- ) + theos "a god" (see theo- ).

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But for much else in polytheism and monotheism it is of more limited value. ▪ By the Edict of Milan, promulgated in 313, he forbade persecution of all forms of monotheism in the Empire. ▪ Pure monotheism was by then securely ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Monotheism has been defined as the belief in the existence of one god or in the oneness of God . The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church gives a more restricted definition: "belief in one personal and transcendent God", as opposed to polytheism and ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The belief in a single deity (one god or goddess); especially within an organized religion.

Usage examples of monotheism.

Exactly in proportion as you turn monotheism into monism you turn it into despotism.

Mick Jagger and his new group, the Trashers, arrived on April 27, while the FBI was interviewing every whore in Las Vegas, and there quickly followed the Roofs, Moses and Monotheism, Steppenwolf, Civilization and Its Discontents, Poor Richard and His Rosicrucian Secrets, the Wrist Watch, the Nova Express, the Father of Waters, the Human Beings, the Washington Monument, the Thalidomide Babies, the Strangers in a Strange Land, Dr.

The idea of one God, of a creative, productive, governing unity, resided in the earliest exertion of thought: and this monotheism of the primitive ages, makes every succeeding epoch, unless it be the present appear only as a stage in the progress of degeneracy and aberration Everywhere in the old faiths we find the idea of a supreme or presiding Deity.

And yet the advocates of Monotheism, Xenophanes and Heraclitus, declaimed only against the making of gods in human form.

Mohammed has been a favorite subject for comparison with Luther by the Catholics, but in truth, in no disparaging sense, the proclamation of Islam, with its monotheism, emphasis on faith and predestination, was very like the Reformation, and so were several later reforms within Mohammedanism, including two in the sixteenth century.

Other ideas or inventions missing from pre-Columbian societies were coined money, ethical monotheism, the idea of the experiment and, in general, writing.

Although Valis Regained draws heavily on the bitheism of the Qumran people, it basically presents another view, not syntonic to Horselover Fat: monotheism, with the notion that evil has no true existence of its own but borrows its existence, or is lent its existence, from the one God.

After flirting with bitheism for years I have settled down to monotheism.

This is the myth of Civilization, embodied in the monotheisms which assign soul to Man alone.