monotheistic
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of monotheistic
Explanation
If you are monotheistic, then you believe in one god. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are monotheistic religions. These days the monotheistic religions — ones that believe in one god — are the most popular. But other religions, like Buddhism and Hinduism, are polytheistic — meaning they believe in many gods. Usually in a monotheistic religion, God (with a capital G) is an all-powerful being who created the universe and knows everything. Monotheistic religions tend to look at other types of believers as pagans, heathens, and heretics.
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Example Sentences
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He expressly remarks that the chief social features of the Monotheistic period might almost be constructed a PRIORI.
From The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth by Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell)
Monotheistic belief a broadening wedge between pantheism and polytheism.
From New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments by Morrison, John
Monotheistic texts have often received a mystical and pantheistic interpretation.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
Opposed to the Monarchic, the Aristocratic, and the Monotheistic, stand the Republican, the Democratic, and the Pantheistic: they are only three different names for three unfoldings of the same principle.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold
Sometimes the qualities common to all the gods were abstracted, and the resultant notion Monotheistic tendency. spoken of as “the god.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
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