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Webster 1913 Edition
Theophilanthropy
Theˊo-phi-lan′thro-py
,Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK] God + E.
philanthropy
.] Theophilanthropism.
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theophilanthropy
theophilanthropy
English
Noun
theophilanthropy (uncountable)
- (now historical) A deistic belief system based on the worship of God and one's fellow man, and the immortality of the soul.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 535:
- 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 2003, p. 535: