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Answer for the clue "Believing in one god ", 12 letters:
monotheistic

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Word definitions for monotheistic in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1846, from monotheist + -ic .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monotheistic \Mon`o*the*is"tic\, a. Of or pertaining to monotheism.

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

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
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.