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
If he was an Egyptian, he must have been an Egyptian monotheist.
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 Moss, Arthur B.
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
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
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
In all the stages thus roughly sketched, myths of the lowest sort prevail, except in the records of the last stage, where the documents have been edited by earnest monotheists.
From Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 by Lang, Andrew
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