monotheist
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monotheists
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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
She considers herself an unaffiliated monotheist who appreciates many aspects of Eastern Orthodoxy but finds it easier to pray with Jews and Muslims.
From Time Magazine Archive
And just let me here observe that the early monotheist always worshipped an anthropomorphic or man-like deity.
From Nature and the Gods From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures by Arthur B. Moss
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
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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