Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who believes in or maintains polytheism, or the doctrine of a plurality of gods.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who believes in, or maintains the doctrine of, a plurality of gods.
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- noun a believer in, or advocate of,
polytheism
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- noun one who believes in a plurality of gods
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Examples
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The polytheist is oppressed and distracted by the variety of superstition: a thousand rites of Egyptian origin were interwoven with the essence of the Mosaic law; and the spirit of the gospel had evaporated in the pageantry of the church.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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(In its message, the group referred to Sistani as a "polytheist," the extremist Sunni slur about Shiites.)
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In other contexts "polytheist" tends to be what the word means.
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Ghazali bitterly denounced Plato, Socrates and other Greek writers as mushrikuwn 'polytheist' and labelled those who employed their methods and ideas as corrupters of the Islamic faith.
Archive 2005-10-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
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Ghazali bitterly denounced Plato, Socrates and other Greek writers as mushrikuwn 'polytheist' and labelled those who employed their methods and ideas as corrupters of the Islamic faith.
Al-Ghazali Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
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Many of the stories of the Old Testament are borrowed from the polytheist religion of Mesopotamia.
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Personally, I am a polytheist who values mythology.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Sad Victory for Thuggery in Texas 2010
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Personally, I am a polytheist who values mythology.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Sad Victory for Thuggery in Texas 2010
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Finally, does anyone else note that Catholicism is a polytheist religion?
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While not quite on this topic, for your entertainment and edification, allow me to quote a poem by the scholarly C.S. Lewis, who knew a thing or two about ancient polytheist writers:
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