Definition of monotheistic in English:
monotheistic
adjective mɒnə(ʊ)ˌθiːˈɪstɪkˌmɑnəθiˈɪstɪk
Relating to or characterized by the belief that there is only one God.
Western monotheistic traditions
Example sentencesExamples
- A truly monotheistic system requires us to recognize the world as it is, and recognize our power of choice in this world.
- Alone among the great monotheistic faiths, Catholicism is a lover rather than a breaker of icons.
- It was first thought that the Olmecs were monotheistic, but it is now known that they were polytheists.
- From ancient times to the present, various forms of monotheistic faith have repeatedly unleashed tremendous energies for both good and ill.
- This monotheistic Native American religion was strongly based on a Christian model, with some ancestral ceremonies included.
- The great museums of the world bear witness to the extensive impact of monotheistic spirituality upon human civilization.
- They stressed that their religion was monotheistic and that it possessed the formal features of established religions: a dogma, a distinct ritual, a priestly hierarchy.
- Islam by contrast did present such an immediate monotheistic God who superintended all human endeavors.
- The Bible teaches that mankind was originally monotheistic.
- The final development in Indian religious thinking, in a time just before Buddhism, was that of monotheistic belief.
Derivatives
adverb -ˈɪstɪk(ə)li
Man was subject to all the gods, but Zeus reigned supreme over gods and men, although not quite monotheistically.
Example sentencesExamples
- By being many, these Goddesses avoid a monotheistically chauvinistic view of the feminine.
- Within a piece of relatively popular literature, an author could speak of supernatural causes both monotheistically and polytheistically.
- Aten was the god of the solar disk who was monotheistically worshipped by Akhenaten, a religious theory which only lasted for one reign.
- Wallace saw Chinese religion as monotheistically organized around the figure of Confucius.
Definition of monotheistic in US English:
monotheistic
adjectiveˌmänəTHēˈistikˌmɑnəθiˈɪstɪk
Relating to or characterized by the belief that there is only one God.
Western monotheistic traditions
Example sentencesExamples
- This monotheistic Native American religion was strongly based on a Christian model, with some ancestral ceremonies included.
- Islam by contrast did present such an immediate monotheistic God who superintended all human endeavors.
- Alone among the great monotheistic faiths, Catholicism is a lover rather than a breaker of icons.
- They stressed that their religion was monotheistic and that it possessed the formal features of established religions: a dogma, a distinct ritual, a priestly hierarchy.
- A truly monotheistic system requires us to recognize the world as it is, and recognize our power of choice in this world.
- The great museums of the world bear witness to the extensive impact of monotheistic spirituality upon human civilization.
- The final development in Indian religious thinking, in a time just before Buddhism, was that of monotheistic belief.
- The Bible teaches that mankind was originally monotheistic.
- It was first thought that the Olmecs were monotheistic, but it is now known that they were polytheists.
- From ancient times to the present, various forms of monotheistic faith have repeatedly unleashed tremendous energies for both good and ill.