polytheistic
adjective
pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to polytheism, the doctrine that there is more than one god or many gods.
polytheistical
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a variation of
polytheistic.
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a word derived from
polytheism.
polytheismnounthe doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
Example Sentences
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If ancient literature found a refuge in the monastic establishments, the polytheistical guests were not slightly contemned by their hosts, who cherished with a different taste a bastardised race of the Romans.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
It consisted, according to the oldest literature of the Veda, in a polytheistical worship of the divine, either as the beneficent or the baneful power of nature.
From A Comparative View of Religions by Johannes Henricus Scholten
It is certainly a matter of the extremest difficulty, for us in imagination to place ourselves in the situation of those who believed in the ancient polytheistical creed.
From Lives of the Necromancers by William Godwin
The nations which practise toleration at the present time are those that might well be termed polytheistical, since, as in England and America, they are divided into innumerable sects.
From The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave Le Bon
