Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who fights against God or the gods.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who fights against the gods; one who resists God of the divine will.

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  • noun One who fights against God or the gods.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek

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Examples

  • In no troubler or benefactor of the world, on the largest scale, in no theomachist of any age, whether intelligent and benevolent, or demoniacal and evil, had this nature which he here defines so clearly, ever been more largely incorporated, or more effectively armed.

    The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835

  • "This faith could only be destroyed through the physical extermination of its holders, this is why by creating the spiritual famine, the theomachist power doomed the nation to the physical one," the Ukrainian hierarchs said.

    Clerical Whispers 2008

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