misotheism

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 See also 1.3 References

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[edit] Etymology

From Greek μισόθεος "hating the gods", from μίσος "hatred" and Θεός "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.

[edit] Noun

misotheism (rare, obsolete)

1. Hatred of God or gods

[edit] See also

• maltheism

[edit] References

• Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. [1]
• Oxford English Dictionary (online edition, 2007)
• N.E.D. (1907)