philotheismn.
/ˌfɪlə(ʊ)ˈθiːɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌfɪləˈθiˌɪz(ə)m/ rare.
Love of God.
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1870 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. May 563 Baudelaire always kept in mind that Christianity..was not and could not be a creature of philanthropy or philotheism, but of church and creed.
1986 A. F. Kinney Humanist Poetics x. 420 Lodge moves through a sense of philanthropic service to an increasing sense of philotheism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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