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autotheistic

autotheistic adjective: self-worshiping; prideful in the extreme.

Adjective

autotheistic (comparative more autotheistic, superlative most autotheistic)

  1. 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

Forms of autotheistic

comparativemore autotheistic
superlativemost autotheistic

Origin of autotheistic

From auto- + theistic.

Questions about autotheistic

What does autotheistic mean?
Autotheistic means self-worshiping; prideful in the extreme.
What part of speech is autotheistic?
Autotheistic is an adjective.

Words near autotheistic in the dictionary

  1. autotetraploidy
  2. autothaumaturgist
  3. autothaumaturgists
  4. autotheism
  5. autotheist
  6. autotheistic
  7. autotheists
  8. autotheoretic
  9. autotheoretical
  10. autotheories
  11. autotheory

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