Crossword-Solution: POLYTHEIST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Polytheist | n. | One who believes in, or maintains the doctrine of, a plurality of gods. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “POLYTHEIST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Hindu, for one | 1 answer |
| worshipper of many gods | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Sentences with POLYTHEIST (5)
The devout polytheist, though fondly attached to his national rites, admitted with implicit faith the different religions of the earth.
Hymns and prayers are the principal worship; the Supreme God, who fills the wide circle of heaven, is the object to whom they are addressed.” Yet, at the same time, in the true spirit of a polytheist, he accuseth them of adoring Earth, Water, Fire, the Winds, and the Sun and Moon.
The temper of the Jews was incapable of contenting itself with such a cold and languid assent as might satisfy the mind of a Polytheist; and as soon as they admitted the idea of a future state, they embraced it with the zeal which has always formed the characteristic of the nation.
The careless Polytheist, assailed by new and unexpected terrors, against which neither his priests nor his philosophers could afford him any certain protection, was very frequently terrified and subdued by the menace of eternal tortures.
The incomparable pliancy of a polytheist!] 86 (return) [ Ammianus, who makes a fair report of his præfecture (xxvii.
Quotes with POLYTHEIST (3)
For the natural polytheist, whose gods arise in and from the natural material world, this challenge is not even always a metaphor. Our gods not only have transcendent eyes and metaphysical hands. They have antlers and feathers, hooves and scales, fangs and horns and wings and fins and claws. They are in the lands we strip for veins of precious ore. They are in the waters we poison.
For the natural polytheist who finds her gods in the rivers and mountains, in the deep-rooted giants looming above the canopy and in the tiny creatures that move beneath them, ecology gives us a glimpse into a kind of living anatomy of the divine, a theology of physical as well as spiritual life. - Alison Leigh Lilly, "Anatomy of a God
For the natural polytheist, whose gods arise in and from the natural material world ... Our gods not only have transcendent eyes and metaphysical hands. They have antlers and feathers, hooves and scales, fangs and horns and wings and fins and claws. They are in the lands we strip for veins of precious ore. They are in the waters we poison. - Alison Leigh Lilly, "Anatomy of a God
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2021).