autotheistn.
/ˌɔːtə(ʊ)ˈθiːɪst/, U.S. /ˌɔdoʊˈθiˌɪst/, /ˌɑdoʊˈθiˌɪst/, /ˌɔdəˈθiˌɪst/, /ˌɑdəˈθiˌɪst/ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > nature of god(s) > deification > of the self > one who
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autotheista1710
a1710 G. Bull Primitive Christianity (1713) III. 930 I have nothing to fear from those called Autotheists, seeing I have openly and barefaced set my self to confute them.
1712 G. Hickes in J. E. Grabe Defects & Omissions Whiston's Coll. Testimonies p. l Heresies, that of the Autotheists or Monarchians,..taught that the Father was the Son, and the Son the Father, which made them one Person.
1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Autotheist... One who believes God's self-subsistence.
2. A person who believes himself or herself to be God, or a god; a self-worshipper or self-deifier. Now rare.
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1846 J. H. Burton Life & Corr. David Hume 520 (note) Many other truths not to be at once penetrated,..were mysteries to the auto-theist [sc. Voltaire], and..were therefore to his self-sufficient wisdom, absurd and ludicrous.
1866 Visct. Strangford Sel. Writings (1869) II. 299 The Eastern and the Western autotheist alike give full play to their fancy.
1881 T. Hughes in C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. Pref. Mem. 62 To mistake more and more the voice of that very flesh of his..for the Voice of God, and to become without knowing it an autotheist.
1914 A. H. Plumb When Mayflowers Blossom iv. 66 Atheists are auto-theists, deifying themselves. They enthrone their own mind, in the place of any objective, external authority whatso.
2000 Re: Testimony of Weak-atheism in alt.atheism (Usenet newsgroup) 16 Jan. But [she]..also proclaimed herself to be god: she was an autotheist.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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