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Webster 1913 Edition


Theophilanthropy

Theˊo-phi-lan′thro-py

,
Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK] God + E.
philanthropy
.]
Theophilanthropism.
Macaulay.

Definition 2024


theophilanthropy

theophilanthropy

English

Noun

theophilanthropy (uncountable)

  1. (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.