theologist
theologist noun: one who is skilled in, professes or practices that which relates or pertains to God.
Noun
theologist (plural theologists)
- One who is skilled in, professes or practices that which relates or pertains to God.
- She told me with great joy and simplicity, that an English lady had told her, that our religion was very much alike. I think it is very possible that she fancied us to be Heathens or Turks, before this profound theologist set her right.1763 August 6, Elizabeth Carter, personal correspondence, in Montagu Pennington, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter […], Volume I, F. C. and J. Rivington (1808), page 319
- What would you have, says the scientist, but an ever-widening view of Nature's operations?—is it not enough, cries the theologist, to be sure that there is a God, although "His ways are past finding out?"1884, William Chatterton Coupland, Translator's Preface to Eduard von Hartmann, Philosophy of the Unconscious: Speculative Results According to the Inductive Method of Physical Science, Volume I...
- Synonyms:
- theologer, theologian, theologician, theologue
Synonyms of theologist
Forms of theologist
| plural | theologists |
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Origin of theologist
Borrowed from Medieval Latin theologista.
Words formed from theologist
Words that rhyme with theologist
- scatologist
- accidentologist
- alcohologist
- alienologist
- amphipodologist
- anthologist
- anthropologist
- arthropodologist
- astrologist
- batologist
- brewologist
- buttonologist
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- cardiologist
- Christologist
- climatologist
- copepodologist
- cosmologist
- crabologist
- deep ecologist
- dendrologist
- dickologist
- dinosaurologist
- Dylanologist
- entomologist
- epistemologist
- equinologist
- gerontologist
- graffitologist
- grammatologist
- hydrologist
- hyetologist
- immunohaematologist
- mediologist
- metagrobologist
- mycologist
- neurogastroenterologist
- neurologist
- numerologist
- ologist
- ontologist
- oologist
- ophiolitologist
- ornithologist
- osteoarcheologist
- otolaryngologist
- otorhinolaryngologist
- palaeornithologist
- pathologist
- phonologist
- phycologist
- picornavirologist
- pneumologist
- polemologist
- psychologist
- pulmonologist
- seismologist
- sematologist
- sexologist
- tautologist
- technologist
Questions about theologist
- What does theologist mean?
- Theologist means one who is skilled in, professes or practices that which relates or pertains to God.
- What part of speech is theologist?
- Theologist is a noun.
- What is the plural of theologist?
- The plural of theologist is theologists.
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