Meanings
adjectiveautotheistic (comparative more autotheistic, superlative most autotheistic)
comparative more autotheistic · superlative most autotheistic
- Self-worshiping; prideful in the extreme.
But under Professor Lerner’s scrutiny, example after example of allegedly extreme antinomian or autotheistic beliefs and of resultant flagrant libertinism loses those characteristics.
1972, Walter L. Wakefield, review of The Heresy of the Free Spirit in the Later Middle Ages, in Church History, Vol. 41, No. 4
Origin
- Proto-Hellenic*autós
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ew
- Ancient Greekαὖ (aû)
- Ancient Greekτόν (tón)
- Ancient Greekαὐτός (autós)
- Ancient Greekαὐτο- (auto-)
- Englishauto-
- Englishtheistic
- Englishautotheistic
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Chicago
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