monotheistn.adj.

1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 84 They destroy the worship of the Son of God under an ignorant pretence of Monotheisme; whereas the more distinct knowledge of that one God does not make us less Monotheists than they.

1812 T. Cogan Jewish Dispensation ii. §7. 321 The general propensity to the worship of Idols was totally subdued; and they became Monotheists in the strictest sense of the term.

1847 G. H. Lewes Hist. Philos. (1867) I. 47 He was a monotheist in contradistinction to his polytheistical contemporaries.

1874 J. P. Mahaffy Social Life Greece xi. 334 Their literary monuments were composed by the cultivated monotheists.

1931 B. Marshall Father Malachy's Miracle vii. 189 Mr. George Bleater was..such a monotheist that, consecrating all his devotion to Bacchus, he had none left over for Venus.

1988 Oxf. Illustr. Encycl. III. 6/2 Akhenaten..Pharaoh of Egypt..was a very early monotheist who prohibited the worship of all gods except Aten, the sun disc.

1997 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 21 Sept. d4/4 Jews and Christians had special status as People of the Book—a fraternity of monotheists.

1825 Gentleman's Mag. 95 i. 235 Abury..might be a temple of the first, or Monotheist Druids.

1872 W. Bagehot Physics & Polit. (1880) ii. 77 The Jews, who were monotheist, were conquered by the Romans who were polytheist.

1875 C. Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome lxxi. 583 It was the first time that the two principles of faith, the monotheist and the polytheist, met in combat.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 860/2 Amenophis (Amenhotp) IV. of the XVIIIth dynasty became the monotheist Akhenaton.

1998 Prospect Mar. 18/1 My monotheist view warns me that human society is not perfectible.