Word Meanings - BITHEISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Belief in the existence of two gods; dualism.

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• BELIEFFUL
  Having belief or faith.
• BELIEF
  A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith. No man can attain belief by the bare contemplation of heaven and earth. Hooker. 3. The thing believed; the object of belief. Superstitious prophecies are not only the belief of fools, but the talk
• DUALISM
  State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction; as: A view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit. A system which accepts
• EXISTENCE
  1. The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence. The main object of our existence. Lubbock. 2. Continued
• NONEXISTENCE
  1. Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity. A. Baxter. 2. A thing that has no existence. Sir T. Browne.
• UNBELIEF
  1. The withholding of belief; doubt; incredulity; skepticism. 2. Disbelief; especially, disbelief of divine revelation, or in a divine providence or scheme of redemption. Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain. Cowper. Syn. --
• PREEXISTENCE
  1. Existence in a former state, or previous to something else. Wisdom declares her antiquity and preëxistence to all the works of this earth. T. Burnet. 2. Existence of the soul before its union with the body; -- a doctrine held by certain
• POSTEXISTENCE
  Subsequent existence.
• INEXISTENCE
  Inherence; subsistence. Bp. Hall. That which exists within; a constituent. A. Tucker.
• SELF-EXISTENCE
  Inherent existence; existence possessed by virtue of a being's own nature, and independent of any other being or cause; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Blackmore.
• MISBELIEF
  Erroneous or false belief.
• MAKE-BELIEF
  A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.
• COEXISTENCE
  Existence at the same time with another; -- contemporary existence. Without the help, or so much as the coexistence, of any condition. Jer. Taylor.
• INCOEXISTENCE
  The state of not coexisting. Locke.
• DISBELIEF
  The act of disbelieving;; a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is not true; refusal of assent, credit, or credence; denial of belief. Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature
• INDIVIDUALISM
  1. The quality of being individual; individuality; personality. 2. An excessive or exclusive regard to one's personal interest; self- interest; selfishness. The selfishness of the small proprietor has been described by the best writers