polytheistic

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This was polytheistic, as is that of all backward peoples, and among their minor deities were their own women.

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  1. Pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by polytheism : as, polytheistic belief or worship. In all polytheistic religions among savages, as well as in the early ages of heathen antiquity, it is the irregular events of nature only that are ascribed to the agency and power of the gods. Adam Smith, Hist. Astron., iii.
  2. Believing in a plurality of gods: as, a polytheistic writer.

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  • "Psalm 82: 8, the most 'polytheistic' of passages in the Hebrew Bible, the idea of a real kinship of nature between 'the Most High' and his 'sons', the gods, is already contradicted by the former's judgment that the latter 'will die like humans' (Ps. 82: 7)." —  Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth
  • You could be atheistic, polytheistic, whatever, doesn't matter to me, but if you're against equal rights then I'm gonna bring it up. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • It was polytheistic, gnostic, Sabellian, Arian, and Pneumatomachian all at the same time. —  The Scriptorium Daily: Middlebrow
  • Now if it was polytheistic, with a multiplicity of gods, that would be different. —  Lost Highway Times
  • The ancient Greek religion was polytheistic, not atheistic. —  Betanews
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  1. = Italian politeistico; as polytheist + -ic.
 

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