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Definition of "monotheist" [mon•o•the•ist]

  • A believer in, or advocate of, monotheism (noun)

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Use "monotheist" in a sentence
  • "If there's a tendency within monotheist religions for conservative moralism to dominate progressive ethics -- as I think there is -- any lack of resolve on the part of the progressives in defying the conservatives is bad news for us all."
  • "What I am saying is that it's a pattern, a recurring feature in monotheism, that this sort of moralistic fervour erupts time and time again, and that rather than writing the pogroms and inquisitions and jihads and crusades off as aberrations I think it's high time we started calling the monotheist religions out on this tendency to go all Smite The Unbeliever on us."
  • "The Hebrew tribes may picked it up during the Babylonian captivity, or, if you assume that Abraham was from Mesopotamia, and a monotheist, he may have been a Zoroastrian, and passed the story down to his family, and it spread through the entire tribe."