theomania
noun
a delusional mental illness in which a person believes that they are to be God or specially chosen by God, as to found a religious order.
theomaniac
-
a word derived from
theomania.
Example Sentences
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And of such there is here enough to glut the gorge of all the monks in monkery, or strengthen for a forty days’ fast any brutallest unwashed theomaniac of the Thebaid.
From A Study of Shakespeare by Edmund Gosse
