Definition of Tritheist

1. Noun. Someone (not an orthodox Christian) who believes that the Father and Son and Holy Ghost are three separate gods.

Generic synonyms: Religious Person
Derivative terms: Tritheism

Definition of Tritheist

1. n. One who believes in tritheism.

Definition of Tritheist

1. Noun. A believer in three gods. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tritheist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tritheist

trite
trite law
tritely
triteness
tritenesses
triter
triternate
triterpene
triterpenes
triterpenoid
triterpenoids
trites
tritest
tritheism
tritheisms
tritheist (current term)
tritheistic
tritheistical
tritheists
tritheite
tritheites
trithiane
trithianes
trithing
trithings
trithiocyanate
trithiocyanates
trithionate
trithionate hydrolase
trithionates

Literary usage of Tritheist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1853)
"... not a tritheist, is scarcely worthy of notice; the question of the Son and His distinct personality was the only subject then in controversy. ..."

2. Catalogue of the Library at Bamburgh Castle, in the County of Northumberland by Bamburgh Castle (England). Library, Nathaniel Crewe (1859)
"A short History of Valentinus Gentilis the tritheist. Translated from the Latin of Ben. ... tritheist ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Conon, Bishop of Tarsus, though a tritheist and, with Eugenius, a supporter of John Philoponus before the emperor, disagreed with that writer about the ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... JOHANNES: Nominalist and tritheist of the eleventh century; b. in northern France, probably in the diocese of Soissons. Of his life almost nothing is ..."

5. The History of the Christian Church During the Middle Ages with a Summary of by Philip Smith (1885)
"Here the popular feeling, which we have seen frequently roused by the religious controversies of the age,1 was so excited against him as a reputed tritheist ..."

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