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  • noun Alternate spelling of polytheism.

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Examples

  • The poly-theism of Damon and Carleton, with their attempt to go out and incorporate hundreds of source-points for their story make for quite the convolution of influences...

    LOST: What Lies in the Shadow of the Season 5 Finale? James F. McGrath 2009

  • These facts show that the tendency of merely rational, or, I might say, human theology, is to poly-theism, and that the only resistant it has is the Mosaic system.

    The Bible or Atheism 1897

  • As an historic fact, human reason, unconnected with the Mosaic record, has often turned from mono-theism to poly-theism -- but has never turned from the many

    The Bible or Atheism 1897

  • The Bible is the history of the war of mono-theism with poly-theism.

    The Bible or Atheism 1897

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