Meanings
comparative more allotheistic · superlative most allotheistic
- 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 2211 more example
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
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élyos
- Proto-Hellenic*ál͏̌l͏̌os
- Ancient Greekᾰ̓́λλος (ắllos)
- Englishallo-
- Englishtheistic
- Englishallotheistic
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