Monotheism Definition

mŏnə-thē-ĭzəm
noun
The belief or doctrine that there is only one God.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
monotheism
Plural:
monotheisms

Origin of Monotheism

  • A learned 17th-century coinage, mono- +"Ž theism, from (μονός (monós, “one")) and (θεός (theós, “god, deity") + -ισμός (-ismos)) The term parallels the earlier polytheism, atheism (the simplex theism being slightly later). The earliest known use is by Henry More, ca. 1660, in explicit juxtaposition with both atheism and polytheism.

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Monotheism Sentence Examples

  • A rigid monotheism appeared to Plotinus a miserable conception.

  • Monotheism henceforth was to be the belief not of philosophers only but even of the ignorant, and in Jesus Christ the union of the divine and the human was effected.

  • The goal towards which these tendencies verged was monotheism; and though this goal was only once, and then quite ephemerally, reached, still the monotheistic idea was at most periods, so to speak, in the air.

  • Sufism (q.v.) appears in the 9th century among the Mahommedans of Persia as a kind of reaction against the rigid monotheism and formalism of Islam.

  • This explanation was the more urgent because under the influence of Jewish monotheism the rule of God was accepted as an undoubted presupposition, so that the death of Jesus must be in accordance with his will.

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Words Starting With

MMOMON

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MSMISM

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Words Starting With M and Ending With M

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