Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
theophilanthropism .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Theophilanthropism.
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- noun now historical A
deistic belief system based on the worship ofGod and one's fellow man, and theimmortality of the soul.
Etymologies
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From French théophilanthropie.
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Examples
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Some will instance France; but the Parisians alone, and a fanatical faction of them, maintained for a short time the absurd dogma of theophilanthropy.
Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English Teresa Guiccioli 1836
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Then the spirit of persecution took a circuitous way to gain its end: this was to cry down religion and its ministers, to promote theophilanthropy, and enforce the transferring of Sunday to the _décade_, or tenth day of every republican month.
Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798
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