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polytheistic

[ pol-ee-thee-is-tik ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to polytheism, the doctrine that there is more than one god or many gods:
Science thrived in the polytheistic culture of ancient Greece.

This puts them at odds with the countless polytheistic religions, where many gods compete for prominence.

They agreed, however, in cleansing it from its polytheistic setting, and giving it a strictly monotheistic tone.

Monotheism is held to be a refined religious product of earlier polytheistic conceptions.

Every polytheistic nation attacked this problem in turn, and each solved it in its own manner.

Most of the religions which took a purely monotheistic stand-point have become more or less polytheistic in the course of time.

The myth, as it appears in Genesis, is quite polytheistic and anthropomorphic.

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