0 the belief in a single god who does not act to influence events, and whose existence has no connection with religions, religious buildings, or religious books, etc. --
People constantly speak as if deism only came in with the eighteenth century.
In the not far distant past deism and pantheism served as a polite subterfuge for atheism.
As we have seen, the earliest current report charged him with deism.
Among these, it is, too frequently, the practice to make in their heat concessions to atheism or deism, which their most confident advocates had never dared to claim, or to hope.
