polytheist

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I'm a polytheist, and signs like this don't offend me.

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  1. One who believes in or maintains polytheism, or the doctrine of a plurality of gods. The emperor [Hadrian] indeed himself, though a polytheist, was very little of an idolater till the conquest by the Arabs. ' S. Sharpe, Hist. Egypt, xv. § 21.

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  1. = French polythéiste = Spanish politeista = Portuguese politheista = Italian politeista, from New Latin *polytheista, from Greek πολύθεος, of or belonging to many gods: see polytheism and theist.
 

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