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allotheistic en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos Proto-Hellenic *ál͏̌l͏̌os Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́λλος (ắllos)der. English allo- English theistic English allotheistic From allo- + theistic.

Meanings

1. Of or relating to allotheism.
   • Wearers of sheets prepared for a migration across the river. Down into the river they went, allotheistic teens, shawls wrapped snugly around them, to ford the river called Tokeneke, rock by rock. 2000, Rick Moody, Demonology: Stories, page 221:
   • And he inveighed against Candle-mas as an allotheistic thing, a burning of tapers to Februa; and he indicted the vanity of Shrove-tide, with its cock-scaling in honor not of Christ but Themistocles... 1977, John B. Sanford, View from This Wilderness: American Literature As History, page 45:

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