Meanings
nountheophilanthropy (uncountable)
- historicaluncountableA deistic belief system based on the worship of God and one's fellow man, and the immortality of the soul.
From 1796, the Director La Révellière-Lépeaux threw his weight behind the cult of Theophilanthropy, a somewhat whimsical form of philosophical Deism.
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 535
Origin
- Frenchthéophilanthropie
- Englishtheophilanthropy
From French théophilanthropie.
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