allotheistic

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adjective

Of or relating to allotheism.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectiveallotheistic (comparative more allotheistic, superlative most allotheistic)

comparative more allotheistic · superlative most allotheistic

  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
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    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

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élyos
  3. Proto-Hellenic*ál͏̌l͏̌os
  4. Ancient Greekᾰ̓́λλος (ắllos)
  5. Englishallo-
  6. Englishtheistic
  7. Englishallotheistic

From allo- + theistic.

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APA

allotheistic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/allotheistic

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“allotheistic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/allotheistic. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “allotheistic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/allotheistic.

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