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Yah⋅wism

[yah-wiz-uhm]
–noun
the worship of Yahweh or the religious system based on such worship.
Also, Yahvism [yah-viz-uhm] , Jahvism, Jahwism.


Origin:
1865–70; Yahw(eh) + -ism
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Yah·wist   (yä'wĭst)   
n.  The putative author of the earliest sources of the Hexateuch in which God is consistently referred to by the Tetragrammaton.
Yah'wism n., Yah·wis'tic adj.
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