I love the way the net spoon feeds this word baby...just in time since I'm diving into "Franny" after I detach my fingers from this keyboard, will ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 00:04:20 -0500 From: Wordsmith <wsmith@wordsmith.org> To: linguaphile@wordsmith.org Subject: A.Word.A.Day--henotheism henotheism (HEN-uh-thee-iz-uhm) noun Belief in one god without denying the existence of others. [Greek heno-, from hen, neuter of heis, one. + the (o)- + -ism.] "On the empirical side, Lind thinks he sees an accelerating pattern of religious indifferentism in this country; Americans, he argues, have adopted the henotheism of `one God and many equally true religions.' But the phenomenon Lind is trying to describe could much more accurately be thought of as a flourishing of religious tolerance--and one, moreover, that is morally grounded in religious convictions." Weigel, George, The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution. (book reviews), Commentary, 1 Jul 1995. Pronunciation: http://www.wordsmith.org/words/henotheism.wav http://www.wordsmith.org/words/henotheism.ram