pantheist

[ pan-thee-ist ]
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noun
  1. a person who embraces pantheism, the doctrine that God is the ultimate transcendent, spiritual, impersonal reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: The pantheist says that only God exists and objects are mere modes of God’s attributes, while Baha’ism says that objects have a separate reality created by God.

  2. a person who embraces any religious belief or philosophical doctrine holding that God is identical with the universe: For the pantheist, nothing is more worthy of reverence, or even worship, than the awesome power and beauty of the cosmos itself.

adjective

Origin of pantheist

1
First recorded in 1700–10; panthe(ism) + -ist

Other words from pantheist

  • pan·the·is·tic [pan-thee-is-tik], /ˌpæn θiˈɪs tɪk/, pan·the·is·ti·cal, adjective

Words Nearby pantheist

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How to use pantheist in a sentence

  • Thus the ninth century saw a rationalist and a pantheist at the court of a Christian king.

  • A Hindu is a born mystic, and the luxuriant nature of his country has made of him a zealous pantheist.

    From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan | Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky
  • But the abrupt question of the pantheist was, Mr. Emmons, how old are you?

    The Funny Side of Physic | A. D. Crabtre
  • Thus the pantheist is forced to speak of God in all things as if he were in a box.

    Orthodoxy | G. K. Chesterton
  • The real difference is perhaps this; God appears to a Theist as the root, to a pantheist as the flower of things.

    William Blake | Algernon Charles Swinburne