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monotheist

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[mah-nuh-thee-ist, mah-noh-] / ˈmɑ nəˌθi ɪst, ˈmɑ noʊ- /

noun

  • monotheists
    plural
  1. a person who believes in monotheism.


adjective

  1. monotheistic.

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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

He was the first monotheist among the Egyptians.

From Time Magazine Archive

But though the monotheist believed only in one god, that did not prevent others from believing in an entirely different deity.

From Nature and the Gods From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures by Arthur B. Moss

It does allow that non-Muslim monotheists pay a special tax, however.

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

Why, the learned and philosophical among the Greeks and Romans held it; even their more enlightened poets were monotheists in their sleeves.

From The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

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