monotheist
Americannoun
adjective
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monotheisticadjective
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non-monotheisticadjective
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pre-monotheisticadjective
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quasi-monotheisticadjective
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monotheisticallyadverb
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“I’m an ethical monotheist, that’s the way I would describe my faith,” he said.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2025
Tut’s father, Akhenaten, was a radical monotheist who had suppressed the cult of Ra.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2018
“It’s a song any monotheist can get behind.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2012
More of a monotheist than God himself, Iblis was banished from Heaven.
From Time Magazine Archive
One poet, a younger contemporary of Mahomet, has attracted much attention because his poems were religious and he was a monotheist.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
The Romans insisted that their subjects participate in symbolic rituals acknowledging the primacy of the emperors, but since the Jews were strict monotheists, they would not do so.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Most of China’s 1.4 billion people have no religious affiliation, and fewer than 7 percent are monotheists.
From Washington Post ● May 8, 2019
Not all monotheists are literalists, and, for many of us, both now and throughout history, the Garden of Eden is not a faulty hypothesis about evolution but a rich symbolic story about good and evil.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 22, 2018
But, while neither was a creedal Christian, both men were monotheists, and, like John Locke, their ideas about tolerance generally extended only to those who believed in a higher power.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 22, 2018
It is only with the monotheists that we have now to deal.
From New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments by Morrison, John
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