misotheism
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek μισόθεος (misótheos, “hating the gods”), from μίσος (mísos, “hatred”) + θεός (theós, “god”). The Greek compound is found in Aeschylus (Agamemnon 1090; compare dystheism). The English word appears as a nonce-coinage, used by T. De Quincey in 1846.
Noun
misotheism (uncountable)
See also
References
- "misotheism" in the Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, MICRA, 1996, 1998.
- “misotheism”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- N.E.D. (1907)